family Felidae, Felidae - cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers

felid, feline - any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile claws

Panthera pardus, leopard - large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots

Panthera uncia, snow leopard, ounce - large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur

Felis onca, jaguar, panther, Panthera onca - a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis

king of beasts, lion, Panthera leo - large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male

Panthera tigris, tiger - large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered

liger - offspring of a male lion and a female tiger

tiglon, tigon - offspring of a male tiger and a female lion

Acinonyx jubatus, cheetah, chetah - long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game

saber-toothed tiger, sabertooth - any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene