feline - any of various lithe-bodied round-headed fissiped mammals many with retractile clawscarnivore - terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb cat, true cat - feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats big cat, cat - any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild paw - a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped |