"big cat" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: big cats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} big cat (plural big cats)
  1. Any large feline animal, especially one of the Panthera genus, including tigers, lions, jaguars and leopards. Categories (lifeform): Panthers Synonyms: great cat, megafelid Translations (any large feline animal): 大貓 (Chinese Mandarin), 大猫 (dàmāo) (Chinese Mandarin), kissapeto (Finnish), fauve [masculine] (French), Großkatze [feminine] (German), stórköttur [masculine] (Icelandic), ịjọ (Igede), micione [masculine] (Italian), പുലി (puli) (Malayalam), grande felino [masculine] (Portuguese), storkatt [common-gender] (Swedish), ẹkun (Yoruba)
    Sense id: en-big_cat-en-noun-1hAatpj7 Disambiguation of Panthers: 92 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 92 8 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 92 8 Disambiguation of 'any large feline animal': 96 4
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, cat.
    Sense id: en-big_cat-en-noun-OLblVmP5

Inflected forms

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