Asian leopard cat

noun

: leopard cat sense 1

The Bengal is the result of crossbreeding the Asian leopard cat with the domestic shorthair.

—Pamela A. Barrett, Cat Fancy, October 1995

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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