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De - Pt| English Dictionary: jungle cat | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for jungle cat | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. -- Balfour (Cyc. of India). {Jungle bear} (Zo[94]l.), the aswail or sloth bear. {Jungle cat} (Zo[94]l.), the chaus. {Jungle cock} (Zo[94]l.), the male of a jungle fowl. {Jungle fowl}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any wild species of the genus {Gallus}, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl ({G. varius}) of Java, {G. Stanleyi} of Ceylon, and {G. Bankiva} of India. Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. (b) An Australian grallatorial bird ({Megapodius tumulus}) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition. | |
