wild cat

Meaning

  1. An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
  2. A feral cat.
  3. (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.
  4. (alt-of, alternative, uncommon) Alternative form of wildcat in its other extended senses.

Translations

αγριόγατα

chat sauvage d’Europe

chat des forêts d’Europe

Felis silvestris

Catus ferox

Catus silvestris

Felis catus ferus

gato montes

gato montés euroasiático

Etymology

In summary

From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild + cat.

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