Definition of Genus Felis

1. Noun. Type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Felis

genus Eutamias
genus Euterpe
genus Euthynnus
genus Evernia
genus Exacum
genus Exaeretodon
genus Fabiana
genus Fagopyrum
genus Fagus
genus Falcatifolium
genus Falco
genus Fasciola
genus Fasciolopsis
genus Feijoa
genus Felicia
genus Felis (current term)
genus Ferocactus
genus Festuca
genus Ficus
genus Filago
genus Firmiana
genus Fissurella
genus Fistularia
genus Fistulina
genus Flacourtia
genus Flammulina
genus Flindersia
genus Foeniculum
genus Fomes
genus Forestiera

Literary usage of Genus Felis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophy of Natural History by William Smellie (1873)
"likeness among themselves, they constitute a GENUS. Thus the genus Felis includes all those of the cat kind ; and these animals, although differing one from ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... long tail, and small, plain ears; they are united in the genus Felis, with different specific names, as Felis libyca, Felis catus, Felis leo, etc. ..."

3. Natural History of New York by New York (State). Natural History Survey, James Ellsworth De Kay (1842)
"genus Felis. Linneus. Ears short and distant, not tufted. No mane. Tail long, varying occasionally in the same species. Tongue roughened with prickles. ..."

4. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1908)
"The crystals of the genus Felis are as strictly isomorphous as those of the calcite group of the rhombohedral carbonates. As an example of the individuality ..."

5. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"... elephant, and the genus Felis from the Latin felis, cat. A genus may contain but a single species or it may have several or even many, but in all cases ..."

6. East African Mammals in the United States National Museum by Ned Hollister (1918)
"Act. Acad. Cses. Leop., vol. 63, p. 76. (F. serval.) Four groups of cats of the genus Felis are included in our East African collections. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Genus Felis on Dictionary.com!Search for Genus Felis on Thesaurus.com!Search for Genus Felis on Google!Search for Genus Felis on Wikipedia!

Search