native cat

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   carnivorous arboreal cat-like marsupials of Australia and Tasmania

   SynonymsDasyurus viverrinus

   Broaderdasyure

Questions about native cat

What does native cat mean?

native cat means "carnivorous arboreal cat-like marsupials of Australia and Tasmania".

What is another word for native cat?

Close synonyms include Dasyurus viverrinus. 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 native cat a common word?

native 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.