Definition of Caracal

1. Noun. Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia.

Exact synonyms: Desert Lynx, Lynx Caracal
Generic synonyms: Catamount, Lynx

Definition of Caracal

1. n. A lynx (Felis, or Lynx, caracal.) It is a native of Africa and Asia. Its ears are black externally, and tipped with long black hairs.

Definition of Caracal

1. Noun. A type of mountain cat, of genus ''Caracal'', native to Southern Africa, Turkestan and India. Scientific name: ''Caracal caracal'' or ''Felis caracal''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Caracal

1. an African lynx [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caracal

carabined
carabineer
carabineers
carabiner
carabinero
carabineros
carabiners
carabines
carabinier
carabiniere
carabinieri
carabiniers
carabining
carabins
caraboid
caracal (current term)
caracals
caracara
caracaras
caracca
caraccas
carack
caracks
caracol
caracole
caracoled
caracoler
caracolers
caracoles
caracoling

Literary usage of Caracal

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

1. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"caracal. Tail cylindrical, reaching to the hocks. Limbs more equal. ... caracal, Gray, PZS 1867, p. 277. caracal melanotis. BM Felis caracal ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... caracal, panther, Nile fox, shrew mouse, hedgehog, ichneumon, genet, and wild boar. Rats are very numerous. Many of the birds of Palestine are migratory ..."

3. Lake Ngami, Or, Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years' Wanderings by Charles John Andersson, John Charles Frémont (1857)
"... SEVERAL DESTROYED BY SPRING-GUNS THE LATTER DESCRIBED VISIT FROM A LEOPARD ; IT WOUNDS A DOG ; CHASE AND DEATH OF THE LEOPARD THE caracal. ..."

4. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"Their legs are long and their tail is, with one exception (that of the caracal), very short. Their ears also are tufted at the tip. ..."

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