Feline

Definition: Feline

Feline

Adjective

1. Of or relating to cats; "feline fur".

Noun

1. Any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile claws.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "feline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Feline

Animal

Equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory, piscatorial; molluscous, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate, soliped.

Feline, puss, grimalkin; gib cat, tom cat.

Concealment

Obrep furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; Verb: surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; (cunning).; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn.

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Disease

Anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter; cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.

Crosswords: Feline

Shut up, you feline floozy (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lorenzo Semple Jr.)

Canine, feline, Jekyll and Hyde (A Change (Would Do You Good); performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Of Feline Bondage (1965)

Freeloading Feline (1960)

Feline Frame-up (1954)

Garfield's Feline Fantasies (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cats Have No Masters...Just Friends: An Investigation into the Feline Mind (reference)

• The Feline Wizard (Wizard in Rhyme) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Feline Medicine And Surgery (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Garfield: Feline Fantasies (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Feline (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Transmission electron micrograph of a feline calicivirus. Virions average 35-40 nm in diameter. Cup-like surface depressions sometimes manifest as a "Star of David" array. Credit: CDC.

Missouri poultry producers and their feline friend check the contents of a poultry litter composter, which protects the environment and supplies nutrients for grassland. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Javert, moreover, had in his eye the feline phosphorescence of the birds of the night

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Animals such as pigs, dogs, and a variety of feline species can also harbor P. westermani. (references)

If you eat raw or undercooked meats, particularly pork, bear, wild feline (such as a cougar), fox, dog, wolf, horse, seal, or walrus, you are at risk for trichinosis. (references)

These include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which is found in cows and often referred to as "mad cow" disease, scrapie, which affects sheep and goats, mink encephalopathy, and feline encephalopathy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "feline": Feline Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ Feline Infectious Enteritis ♦ Feline Infectious Peritonitis ♦ Feline Panleukopenia. Additional references.

Albanian

i familjes së maces. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, disingenuous, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, pawky, politic, scheming, sharper, slick, slim, sly, smart, subtle, trick, vulpine, wily), ‏غادر (blow, depart, disloyal, false, get carried away, go, hop, insidious, jump, leave, pop off, quit, ratty, retire, scram, skip, snaky, sneak, snide, start, traitorous, treacherous), ‏سنوري. (various references)

Bulgarian 

котешки (catlike, cattish, catty), от семейството на котки, животно от сем. котки (cat), лукав (astute, crafty, designing, furtive, guileful, parlous, pawky, serpentine, sly, snaky, subtle, tricky, underhand, wicked, wily). (various references)

Chinese 

似猫 (Catlike). (various references)

Czech

koèkovitý. (various references)

Danish

feline leukæmia virus (feline leukemia virus), felin spongiform encephalopati (feline spongiform encephalopathy), felin leukæmi virus (feline leukemia virus), spongiform encephalopati hos kat (feline spongiform encephalopathy), panleukopeni (feline panleucopenia). (various references)

Dutch

Felv (feline leukemia virus), Feline leukemievirus (feline leukemia virus), panleucopenie (feline panleucopenia), panleucopenia (feline panleucopenia), katteleukemie (feline leukemia virus). (various references)

Finnish

kissamainen (catlike). (various references)

French

félin. (various references)

German

katzenartig (catlike). (various references)

Greek 

γατοειδήσ (catlike, cattish, kittenish), αιλουροειδήσ, αιλουροειδής. (various references)

Hebrew 

חתולי (cattish). (various references)

Hungarian

macskaféle, macskatermészetű, macskaszerű (catlike), macska- (catlike). (various references)

Italian

felino (catlike). (various references)

Manx

kaytoil (catlike), kayt (cat, puss). (various references)

Pig Latin

elinefay.(various references)

Portuguese

felino (catlike, cattish, kittenish). (various references)

Romanian

felin (catlike, cattish, catty, graceful). (various references)

Russian 

кошачий (catlike, cat-like, cattish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mačji. (various references)

Spanish

felino (cat, catlike). (various references)

Swedish

kattlik (cattish, catty). (various references)

Thai

เกี่ยวกับสัตว์ตระกูลแมว, คล้ายแมว. (various references)

Turkish

kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), kedilere ait, kedi gibi (catlike, cattish, catty), kedi cinsinden hayvan, kedi (cat, puss, pussycat). (various references)

Ukrainian

тварина з родини котів, котячий (cat-like, cattish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thâm hiểm (snaky). (various references)

felinus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "feline": felinely, felines. (additional references)

Words ending with "feline": lifeline. (additional references)

Words containing "feline": housewifeliness, housewifelinesses, lifelines, wifeliness, wifelinesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Feline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deline, efine, eline, Falana, faline, falline, Falrinne, feelin, Fegina, fegine, feien, feile, Feiner, felan, felane, Felawnah, Felbiger, Felcn, felen, felice, felide, felin, felined, felinoid, felion, felipe, Felkin, Fellice, Fellin, fellini, feloin, felyng, femina, feminae, femine, femini, Ferlini, fevine, Fifine, Figline, Filane, Filene, Filiae, filin, Flehner, fline, flinf, Folin, Foline, folinic, Foxline, Fucine, Fukien, Funline, furline, Jellinek, Melinex, Velina. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: elfin.

-2 letters: feel, file, fine, flee, lief, lien, life, line, neif.

-3 letters: eel, elf, fee, fen, fie, fil, fin, lee, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil.

-4 letters: ef, el, en, if, in, li, ne.

+1 letter: feeling, felines, fleeing, olefine.

+2 letters: enfilade, feelings, felinely, felonies, fencible, fernlike, filename, fineable, flanerie, fleecing, fleering, fleeting, inflexed, lifeline, olefines, riflemen, unbelief.

+3 letters: befleaing, definable, defleaing, enfiladed, enfilades, feelingly, felonries, fencibles, ferreling, filenames, flaneries, fleeching, fluencies, ineffable, inferable, infertile, infielder, inflected, influence, interfile, knifelike, lifelines, minefield, nonbelief, refeeling, refelling, reflexing, reflexion, refueling, reinflate, telfering, unbeliefs, undefiled, unfeeling, unfertile, wulfenite.