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feline

  • adjective
  • /ˈfiːlaɪn/

Of or pertaining to cats.

Example

“The tiger is a feline predator.”

Other meanings

  1. catlike resembling a cat; sleek, graceful, inscrutable, sensual, and/or cunning.

    “She moved with feline grace.”

Word history

From Latin "fēlīnus".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “feline” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.