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"Feline" means relating to cats — it can describe an actual cat's body or movement (like "feline grace," meaning and smooth the way cats move), or it can be a more formal or scientific word for "cat," used especially by vets or in biology ("feline diseases," "a feline shelter"). It can also describe a person who moves smoothly and quietly, in a cat-like way — "she had a feline walk."
貓的、似貓的
組成From Latin "feles," meaning "cat," + -ine (adjective ending, "relating to").
同家族的字
- caninefeline and canine form a matching pair — both use the -ine adjective ending, one for cats and one for dogs
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
felineadj詞源 1/ˈfiːlaɪn/
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Of or pertaining to cats.
- feline behaviour
- feline expert
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catlike (resembling a cat); sleek, graceful, inscrutable, sensual, and/or cunning.
- feline character
- feline movement
felinenoun詞源 2/ˈfiːlaɪn/
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A cat: member of the cat family Felidae.
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A cat: member of the cat family Felidae.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。