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Tiger cat

noun

Medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat. Synonym: Felis tigrina.

A cat having a striped coat.

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"Tiger cat" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bali and Lombock to Timor. This species is very frequent on the banks of rivers, and may have been conveyed from island to island on trees carried down by hoods. 2. Paradoxurus fasciatus; a civet cat, very common over a large part of the Archipelago. 3. Felis megalotis; a tiger cat, said to be peculiar to Timor, where it exists only in the interior, and is very rare. Its nearest allies are in Java. 4. Cervus timoriensis; a deer, closely allied to the Javan and Moluccan species, if distinct. 5. A wild ...

— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... are the otter or water-dog, the musang and climbing musang, the civet cat, the royal tiger, the spotted black tiger, in whose glossy raven-black coat the characteristic markings are seen in certain lights; the tiger cat, the leopard, the Java cat, and four or five others. Many ...

— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)

... One of them was still unconscious, the rest were pretty badly mauled about in the tussle; and Mani suggested that we had better drop them overboard to save further trouble. Her blood was up, and she was full of fight; but Hannah merely laughed, and told her not to be such a pun fia ai (tiger cat). ...

— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke

Words linked to "Tiger cat" : domestic cat, Felis catus, house cat, Felis, Felis domesticus, wildcat, genus Felis