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S: (n) feline, felid (any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws)

S: (n) cat, true cat (feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats)
S: (n) big cat, cat (any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild)

S: (n) leopard, Panthera pardus (large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots)
S: (n) snow leopard, ounce, Panthera uncia (large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur)
S: (n) jaguar, panther, Panthera onca, Felis onca (a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis)
S: (n) lion, king of beasts, Panthera leo (large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male)
S: (n) tiger, Panthera tigris (large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered)
S: (n) liger (offspring of a male lion and a female tiger)
S: (n) tiglon, tigon (offspring of a male tiger and a female lion)
S: (n) cheetah, chetah, Acinonyx jubatus (long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game)
S: (n) saber-toothed tiger, sabertooth (any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene)