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Serval

//ˈsɝvəl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A medium-sized African wild cat, Leptailurus serval, formerly Felis serval.
  2. 2
    slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat wordnet

Etymology

From French serval, from Portuguese (lobo) cerval (“Iberian lynx”), from Latin lupus cervārius (literally “stag wolf”), i.e. "wolf that hunts stags", from cervus (“deer, stag”).

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