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Definition: Felidae |
FelidaeNoun1. Cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | A cosmopolitan family of carnivorous mammals, including the true cats. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Felinae Pantherinae Acinonychinae | ||||||||||
All cats are members of the family Felidae. The felines are the most strictly carnivorous of all the nine families in the order to which they belong, Carnivora. It is thought that the closest relatives of the cats are the other families in their branch of the carnivore evolutionary tree: the civets, hyenas, and mongooses. The first felids emerged during the Eocene, about 40 million years ago. The most familiar feline is the Domestic Cat, which first became associated with humans between 7000 and 4000 years ago. Its wild relatives remain in Africa and western Asia to this day, although habitat destruction has restricted their range.
Other well-known members of the cat family include big cats such as the Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Jaguar, and Cheetah (although the Cheetah, despite its size, appears to be descended from the small cats), and other wild cats such as the lynxes, Puma, and Bobcat.
Subfamily Felinae
Genus Felis
Genus Pardofelis
Genus Acinonyx
The oldest known felines (Aelurogale, Eofelis) emerged in the Eocene. Better known is Proailurus, which lived in the Oligocene and Miocene eras. During the Miocene it gave way to Pseudaelurus. Pseudaelurus is believed to be the latest common ancestor of the three above-mentioned subfamilies and another subfamily, the Machairodontinae. This group, better known as the sabertooth cats, became extinct in the Pleistocene era. It includes the genera Smilodon, Machairodus, Dinofelis and Homotherium.
Felidae is also the title of a novel by Akif Pirincci in which a cat named Joseph investigates the murders of several cats in the big city. The sequel is Felidae on the Road.A classification of cats
Genus Otocolobus
Genus Catopuma
Genus Profelis
Genus Prionailurus
Genus Lynx
Genus Caracal
Genus Leptailurus
Genus Herpailurus
Genus Oncifelis
Genus Oreailurus
Genus Leopardus
Genus Puma
Subfamily Pantherinae
Genus Neofelis
Genus Uncia
Genus Panthera
Subfamily AcinonychinaeFossil cats
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Felidae."
Synonym: FelidaeSynonym: family Felidae (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Felidae |
| Specialty definitions using "Felidae": Cat Diseases ♦ Toxascaris. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Felidae" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (calico cat, cat family, cat o nine tails, cat sleep, cats, cats cradle, Family Relations, Felidae, fisher cat, Multigene Family, pussy cat, sand cat). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Felidae (1994) | |
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Expression using "Felidae": family Felidae. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
felidae | 27 |
felidae cat food | 12 |
felidae jaguar | 4 |
catus felidae | 3 |
family felidae | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Felidae"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | katte (cat family, cats). (various references) | |
Dutch | katachtigen (cat family, cats). (various references) | |
French | Félins, Félidés. (various references) | |
German | Katzen (cats, tabbies). (various references) | |
Greek | φελίδες (cat family, cats), αιλουροειδή (cat family, cats), αιλουρίδες (cat family, cats). (various references) | |
Italian | felidi (cat family, cats). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 猫科 (cat family). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ね"か (cat family). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elidaefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | felídeos (cat family, cats). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Felidae. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-l" | |
-1 letter: aedile, afield, defile, deflea, failed, leafed. | |
-2 letters: ailed, edile, elide, felid, field, filed, flied, ideal. | |
-3 letters: aide, alee, alef, alif, dale, deaf, deal, defi, deil, dele, delf, deli, dial, diel, eide, fade, fail, feal, feed, feel, fila, file, flea, fled, flee, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lead, leaf, lied, lief, life. | |
-4 letters: aid, ail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-l" | |
+1 letter: defilade, enfilade. | |
+2 letters: defiladed, defilades, definable, defleaing, defoliate, enfiladed, enfilades, feudalize, fieldfare, filagreed. | |
+3 letters: alderflies, deadlifted, dealfishes, defeasible, defoliated, defoliates, exfoliated, facelifted, fairleader, federalism, federalist, federalize, feudalized, feudalizes, fiddlehead, fieldfares, fireplaced, firewalled, foreladies, reinflated, semifeudal. | |
+4 letters: battlefield, damselflies, deafeningly, decalcified, decalcifies, deferential, deformalize, fairleaders, federalisms, federalists, federalized, federalizes, felicitated, feudalities, fiddleheads, freeloading, indefinable, lifeguarded, requalified, undefinable. | |
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