miner's cat

Questions about miner's cat

What is another word for miner's cat?

It depends which miner's cat you mean. In the sense “raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings”, the synonyms are bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail, ring-tailed cat, civet cat, Bassariscus astutus. Across all 1 sense there are 9 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of miner's cat?

WordNet records no antonym for miner's cat. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for miner's cat come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of miner's cat

• Full entry for miner's catAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for miner's catWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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