tiger cat

noun — 6 senses

tiger cat

noun

› Any of several species of felids:

1

An oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus).

2

A margay (Leopardus wiedii).

3

An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis).

4

A serval (Leptailurus serval).

5

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:
6

Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Canadian A member of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats (rendered as Tiger-Cat).

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