wild cat

See also: wildcat

English

Alternative forms

(uncommon) wild-cat, wildcat

Noun

wild cat (plural wild cats)

An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
A feral cat.
(uncommon) Alternative spelling of wildcat, (Britain) the Old World wildcats (Felis silvestris) or (US) the bobcat (Lynx rufus) and other New World lynxes.
(uncommon) Alternative spelling of wildcat in its other extended senses.

Synonyms

big cat, great cat

Antonyms

domestic cat, domesticated cat, house cat

Hyponyms

panthers: tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard
clouded leopards: Formosan clouded leopard
cheetahs: South African cheetah, Namibian cheetah, Tanzanian cheetah, East African cheetah, Sudan cheetah, Central African cheetah, Northeast African cheetah, Northwest African cheetah, Saharan cheetah, Asiatic cheetah, Iranian cheetah, Indian cheetah
pumas: cougar, mountain lion, catamount, black panther, Florida panther, Argentine cougar, Costa Rican cougar, Eastern South American cougar, North American cougar, Northern South American cougar, Southern South American cougar
(hybrids) liger, tion, lipard, leopon

Translations

undomesticated cat

Chinese:
Mandarin: 野貓 (zh), 野猫 (zh) (yěmāo)
Finnish: villikissa (fi)
French: chat sauvage (fr) m
German: Wildkatze (de) f

Greek: αγριόγατα (el) f (agriógata)
Hungarian: vadmacska (hu)
Kalmyk: зерлг мис (zerlg mis)
Russian: ди́кая ко́шка f (díkaja kóška), ди́кий кот m (díkij kot) (male)

domesticated cat returned to the wild — see feral cat

Felis silvestris — see wildcat

Lynx rufus — see bobcat

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