wild cat
- An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
- A feral cat.
- (alt-of, alternative, uncommon) Alternative form of wildcat, (UK) the Old World wildcats (Felis silvestris) or (US) the bobcat (Lynx rufus) and other New World lynxes.
- (alt-of, alternative, uncommon) Alternative form of wildcat in its other extended senses.
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat.
Wildkatze
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Felis silvestris Catus ferox Catus silvestris Felis catus ferus
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