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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
tiger cat en · NOUN
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Any of several species of felids: ▸ An oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus).
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Any of several species of felids: ▸ A margay (Leopardus wiedii).
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Any of several species of felids: ▸ An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).
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Any of several species of felids: ▸ A serval (Leptailurus serval).
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(Australia) A tiger quoll (Dasyurus maculatus).
A capacious room […] slowly appeared around me, large enough to accommodate perhaps twenty people, though presently home only to two potaroos & one tiger cat which had scampered out after I entered.
2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 392:
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(Canadian) A member of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats (rendered as Tiger-Cat).
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