Feliform

Quick meaning: Feliform is an adjective meaning Any carnivore of the suborder Feliformia, which are regarded as cat-like.

Meaning

Any carnivore of the suborder Feliformia, which are regarded as cat-like.

More Meanings

1. Resembling a cat; applied to member of the Feliformia, a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of cat-like carnivorans, including cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, civets, etc.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: feloid (often synonymous)

This arrangement is also found in procyonids; however, in mustelids and feliforms, the artery and the nerve travel through the foramen [39].

However, when extinct genera are included, caniforms far outnumber feliforms, with 244 extinct caniform genera to 76 extinct feliform genera, if nimravids are included with feliforms (McKenna and Bell, 1997).

In feliforms, two bones (ectotympanic and entotympanic) unite to form the bullae with a septum separating the two resulting chambers.[…]Palm civets are considered basal to all feliforms because they are genetically distinct from other feliforms and retain primitive auditory bullae lacking a septum (Flynn and Nedbal 1998).

Word Forms

• feliforms

Synonyms for feliform

Depending on context, synonyms include feloid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vulpiform, carnivoran, ferine, suiform, lemuriform, zoomorphic.

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