wild cat

• wild-cat, wildcat (uncommon)

From Middle English wyld cat, wylde cat (in the plural as wild cattes, wylde catis, wyle cattes), equivalent to wild +‎ cat.

wild cat (plural wild cats)

1. An undomesticated felid, as tigers or lions.
2. A feral cat.
3. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of wildcat, (UK) the Old World wildcats (Felis silvestris) or (US) the bobcat (Lynx rufus) and other New World lynxes.
4. (uncommon) Alternative spelling of wildcat in its other extended senses.

• big cat, great cat

• domestic cat, domesticated cat, house cat

• panthers: tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard
• clouded leopards: Formosan clouded leopard
• cheetahs: South African cheetah, Namibian cheetah, Tanzanian cheetah, East African cheetah, Sudan cheetah, Central African cheetah, Northeast African cheetah, Northwest African cheetah, Saharan cheetah, Asiatic cheetah, Iranian cheetah, Indian cheetah
• pumas: cougar, mountain lion, catamount, black panther, Florida panther, Argentine cougar, Costa Rican cougar, Eastern South American cougar, North American cougar, Northern South American cougar, Southern South American cougar
• (hybrids) liger, tion, lipard, leopon

• clitwad