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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Felis \Fe"lis\, n. [L., cat.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.
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Felis is a genus of small and medium-sized cat species native to most of Africa and south of 60° latitude in Europe and Asia to Indochina.
Results of genetic studies indicate that Felis, Otocolobus and Prionailurus diverged from a Eurasian progenitor about 6.2 million years ago, and that Felis species split off 3.04 to 0.99 million years ago.
This genus also includes the domestic cat. The smallest Felis species is the black-footed cat with a head and body length from . The largest is the jungle cat with a head and body length from . Felis species inhabit a wide range of different habitats, from swampland to desert, and generally hunt small rodents, birds and other small animals, depending on their local environment. The worldwide introduction of the domestic cat also made it common to urban landscapes around the globe.
Felis ( Latin for cat) was a constellation created by French astronomer Jérôme Lalande in 1799. He chose the name partially because, as a cat lover, he felt sorry that there was not yet a cat among the constellations (although there are two lions and a lynx). It was located between the constellations of Antlia and Hydra.
This constellation was first depicted in the Uranographia sive Astrorum Descriptio (1801) of Johann Elert Bode. It is now obsolete.
Felis may refer to:
- Felis, a genus of cats in the family Felidae, including the domestic cat and its closest wild relatives
- Felis Britannica, the United Kingdom Member of the Fédération Internationale Féline
- Felis (constellation), a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1799
- Riggu Felis, an anthropomorphic wildcat in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
- Stefano Felis (ca. 1538-1603), a Neapolitan Italian composer
- "-felis", a suffix used to denote cats in taxonomy
Usage examples of "felis".
Then, slowly, the fog faded, and the ridged plains of Felis Dorsa emerged out of the haze, at first misty and colorless, and then, as the dust raised by the landing thinned out, sharply delineated.
In the Martian tropics south of the equator, the Felis Dorsa featured a relatively mild climateor at least mild for Mars, where temperatures of a hundred below at night were normal.
The sun was smaller than the sunsets she was used to, and in the deep shadows the ridges of Felis Dorsa were a dark brick, almost brown.
Apparently the twenty or so of Felis Atrox had fed off a protocamel the night before and had been too drowsy to pay any attention to the noise of the approaching hooves.
Manni is too young, too inexperienced to know that Aineko's proportions are those of a domestic cat, Felis catus, a naturally evolved animal rather than the toys and palimpsests and companionables he's used to.
Malcolm Jones III, Dave McKean, Chris Bachalo, and Michael Zulli also worked on it, but were not named because they did not mention ownership of (or the sharing of quarters with) Felis domestica, and I cooked the evidence.
Osteen -- he's also the track and girl's softball coach -- swears was a member of Felis catus, the common house cat.
The lab report came back that it was indeed the scat of Felis concolor, the eastern mountain lion, also variously and respectfully known as the panther, cougar, puma, and, especially in New England, catamount.
Invited to slide back the door over a peephole, the inspectors saw an elderly though still sleek male specimen of Felis concolor, drowsy but alert enough to curl his lip in annoyance.
They have cats, meow, little furry mammals, domesticated carnivore, Felis domestica, that's what the Big Book says.
Be it known that Felis domestica has been civilized more generatio~5 than all you lesser breeds combined.
Be it known that Felis domestica has been civilized more generations than all you lesser breeds combined.
All the time that I had followed them I had kept both eyes and ears alert for sign or sound that would indicate the presence of Felis tigris.
She had not had time for more than a brief handwash before the simple lunch Sir Felis had served.
The only other intelligent species populating that ancient ancestor-dimension of Earth were the Great Cats of whom Felis domesticus and its many cousins were the descendants: sabertooths and dire-lions, who had taken refuge in that paradisial otherworld many ages before.