Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long-legged African wildcat (Leptailurus serval), having a tawny coat with black spots and very large erect ears without tufts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The African tiger-cat, Felis serval.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An African wild cat (
Felis serval ) of moderate size; -- called alsoserval cat . It has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. Its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A medium-sized
African wild cat . Scientific name: Leptailurus serval orFelis serval .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For those of you who don't know (and I certainly didn't), a serval is a medium sized African wildcat and a coatimundi is part of the raccoon family.
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For those of you who don't know (and I certainly didn't), a serval is a medium sized African wildcat and a coatimundi is part of the raccoon family.
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The serval is a medium-sized African animal that resembles a cheetah with large ears.
unknown title 2009
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The wildcat, called a serval, is a medium-sized African animal that resembles a cheetah with large ears.
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The serval is a medium-sized African animal that resembles a cheetah with large ears.
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The wildcat, called a serval, is a medium-sized African animal that resembles a cheetah with large ears.
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The article in the New York Post serval months ago, which depicted Obama asw a monkey.
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In the distance, a leopard-spotted serval cat took in the scene from the shade, while a hippo honked and grunted just out of sight.
Rob Pringle: Where the Rift Valley Ends Rob Pringle 2010
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Jacopo was finding an audience for his antics with the serval and was clearly loving the attention.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
chained_bear commented on the word serval
Huh. Learned this just now on www.freerice.com.
January 11, 2008
asativum commented on the word serval
Several servals
Spotted strolling Seattle,
Seeking savanna.
"Spotted in Seattle -- yet another wild cat," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 26,2008.
January 28, 2008