Definition of Felis serval

1. Noun. Slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat.

Exact synonyms: Serval
Group relationships: Felis, Genus Felis
Generic synonyms: Wildcat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Felis Serval

Feldtman
Felicia
Felicia amelloides
Felicia bergeriana
Felicity
Felidae
Felis bengalensis
Felis catus
Felis chaus
Felis concolor
Felis domesticus
Felis manul
Felis ocreata
Felis onca
Felis pardalis
Felis serval
Felis silvestris
Felis tigrina
Felis wiedi
Felis yagouaroundi
Felix Klein
Felix Mendelssohn
Felixstowe
Feliz Lusitania
Felliniesque
Feltre
Felty's syndrome
Fender
Fendt

Literary usage of Felis serval

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)
"Cheeks without the cheek- streaks. Skull—face rather produced. Serval. Felis capensis, Forst. 13. felis serval. BM felis serval, Schreb.; Gray, PZS 1867, p. ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"felis serval, Cuv. Oss. Foss. iv. 433. Mam. Lithog. No. 1. Chat pard. Perrault's Mem. dd'Acad. in. part 3. t. 13. and Ib. part HI. t. ..."

3. The Philosophy of Natural History by William Smellie (1873)
"... the tiger, Felis tigris ; the leopard, Felis leopardus ; the jaguar, Felis onca ; the lynx, Felis lynx; the serval, felis serval. In the genus Canis, ..."

4. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"The habitat of the African Tiger Cat, as the type species (Felis-serval) is sometimes called, is in Algeria and other parts of East Africa. ..."

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