calico cat

1. 1.

   a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings

   Synonymstortoiseshelltortoiseshell-cat

   Broaderdomestic cat

Questions about calico cat

What does calico cat mean?

calico cat means "a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings".

What is another word for calico cat?

Close synonyms include tortoiseshell, tortoiseshell-cat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calico cat a common word?

calico cat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.