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noun slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat
originFrom 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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