Feline
adjective
Related to cats or other members of the cat family.
She has a feline grace in her movements.
Often appears as...
- feline friend
- feline characteristics
noun
A member of the cat family.
Lions and tigers are types of felines.
Often appears as...
- domestic feline
- wild feline
adjective
Related to cats or other members of the cat family.
She has a feline grace in her movements.
Often appears as...
- feline friend
- feline characteristics
noun
A member of the cat family.
Lions and tigers are types of felines.
Often appears as...
- domestic feline
- wild feline
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Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Cats
While predominantly associated with house cats, 'feline' extends to lions, leopards, and other large wild cats.
The zoo's feline exhibit includes cheetahs and pumas.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Used metaphorically, 'feline' can describe someone with cat-like qualities, such as grace or independence.
Her feline disposition kept her aloof from the chaos.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Traits
'Feline' often refers to physical traits or behaviors like stealth, agility, or quietness.
The dancer's feline agility amazed the audience.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Cats
While predominantly associated with house cats, 'feline' extends to lions, leopards, and other large wild cats.
The zoo's feline exhibit includes cheetahs and pumas.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Used metaphorically, 'feline' can describe someone with cat-like qualities, such as grace or independence.
Her feline disposition kept her aloof from the chaos.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Traits
'Feline' often refers to physical traits or behaviors like stealth, agility, or quietness.
The dancer's feline agility amazed the audience.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Cats
While predominantly associated with house cats, 'feline' extends to lions, leopards, and other large wild cats.
The zoo's feline exhibit includes cheetahs and pumas.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Used metaphorically, 'feline' can describe someone with cat-like qualities, such as grace or independence.
Her feline disposition kept her aloof from the chaos.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Traits
'Feline' often refers to physical traits or behaviors like stealth, agility, or quietness.
The dancer's feline agility amazed the audience.
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Why do cats act so...
and prey for larger carnivores. As both predator and prey, survival of their species depended on crucial instinctual behaviors which we still observe in wild and domestic cats today. While the feline actions of your house cat Grizmo might seem perplexing, in the wild, these same behaviors,
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Hangout to Cause an...
attempting to join us via satellite so we'll hopefully be hearing from them as well it's big cat week at National Geographic and today we're talking about the endangered felines with the people that are raising awareness to conserve them and are doing things to protect
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How parasites change...
that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle. When a rat gets infected by eating cat feces, the parasite changes chemical levels in the rat's brain, making it less cautious around the hungry felines, maybe even attracted to them.
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Depressed dogs, cats...
and made them into peaceable felines. And even antidepressants were first tested in rabbits. Today, however, we are not just giving these drugs to other animals as test subjects, but they're giving them these drugs as patients,
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Peruvian Gold Exhibit in...
form of a human who's holding two dragons that have feline heads cat's heads on the big fangs and this one P is sort of is iconic of the whole worldview of ancient Peru with humans and the animals and the transformation and you
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
feline wonder always drive very slowly yesterday she was so camouflaged she could almost drive over if you're not careful obviously she would move beforehand but you don't want to influence the cat's in any way so we're
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Is there a disease that...
Strangest of all, they're actually attracted to feline urine, which probably makes them more likely to cross paths with a cat and help the parasite complete its life cycle. How does the parasite pull this off?
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Kitten Lady on Orphaned...
I am a professional animal rescuer and I'm a humane educator I specialize in saving the lives of the tiniest and most vulnerable felines I am so happy to be joined by all of you guys today on
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Cat Diversity PIPE National...
felines are spotted surprisingly close to local villages the team searches the country seeking clues to help them understand the cats changing range they deploy traps in
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Big Cats PIPE National...
the Amazon jungle in another part of the world the throne of the big cat belongs to a feline adorned with different
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Why do cats act so...
and prey for larger carnivores. As both predator and prey, survival of their species depended on crucial instinctual behaviors which we still observe in wild and domestic cats today. While the feline actions of your house cat Grizmo might seem perplexing, in the wild, these same behaviors,
Video examples
Hangout to Cause an...
attempting to join us via satellite so we'll hopefully be hearing from them as well it's big cat week at National Geographic and today we're talking about the endangered felines with the people that are raising awareness to conserve them and are doing things to protect
Video examples
How parasites change...
that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle. When a rat gets infected by eating cat feces, the parasite changes chemical levels in the rat's brain, making it less cautious around the hungry felines, maybe even attracted to them.
Video examples
Depressed dogs, cats...
and made them into peaceable felines. And even antidepressants were first tested in rabbits. Today, however, we are not just giving these drugs to other animals as test subjects, but they're giving them these drugs as patients,
Video examples
Peruvian Gold Exhibit in...
form of a human who's holding two dragons that have feline heads cat's heads on the big fangs and this one P is sort of is iconic of the whole worldview of ancient Peru with humans and the animals and the transformation and you
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
feline wonder always drive very slowly yesterday she was so camouflaged she could almost drive over if you're not careful obviously she would move beforehand but you don't want to influence the cat's in any way so we're
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Is there a disease that...
Strangest of all, they're actually attracted to feline urine, which probably makes them more likely to cross paths with a cat and help the parasite complete its life cycle. How does the parasite pull this off?
Video examples
Kitten Lady on Orphaned...
I am a professional animal rescuer and I'm a humane educator I specialize in saving the lives of the tiniest and most vulnerable felines I am so happy to be joined by all of you guys today on
Video examples
Cat Diversity PIPE National...
felines are spotted surprisingly close to local villages the team searches the country seeking clues to help them understand the cats changing range they deploy traps in
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Big Cats PIPE National...
the Amazon jungle in another part of the world the throne of the big cat belongs to a feline adorned with different
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Walter Murch
American Editor
If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.
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Tippi Hedren
American Actress
We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.
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Michael Dirda
American Critic
My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.
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Erica Jong
American Novelist
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
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James Thurber
American Author
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Cynthia Leitich Smith
American Author
I'm fond of my werecats, if only because I have four real-world felines staring at me as I type.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Artist
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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Robert Byrne
American Author
To err is human, to purr feline.
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Walter Murch
American Editor
If you want to freak your cat out, stare at your cat. If you want to reassure your cat, stare at your cat, then very deliberately and very slowly blink. Like that. The cat will also deliberately, slowly blink back at you, and I almost guarantee that she will start to purr. That's a feline reassurance.
Quote examples
Tippi Hedren
American Actress
We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.
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Michael Dirda
American Critic
My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.
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Erica Jong
American Novelist
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
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James Thurber
American Author
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Cynthia Leitich Smith
American Author
I'm fond of my werecats, if only because I have four real-world felines staring at me as I type.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Artist
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
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Robert Byrne
American Author
To err is human, to purr feline.
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