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5 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws
originBy surface analysis, an appellativization from Felid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names); by surface analysis, feline + -id.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0