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[kar-uh-kal]

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noun

a slender, catlike mammal, Lynx caracal, with a reddish-brown coat and long tufted ears, inhabiting northern Africa and India.

the fur of this animal.

Origin:
1750–60; < French, apparently Buffon's adaption of Turkish karakulak lynx (kara black + kulak ear)

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caracal (ˈkærəˌkæl)

—n
1.	Also called: desert lynx a lynxlike feline mammal, Lynx caracal, inhabiting deserts of N Africa and S Asia, having long legs, a smooth coat of reddish fur, and black-tufted ears
2.	the fur of this animal

[C18: from French, from Turkish kara kūlāk, literally: black ear]

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"The Caracal lies on a shelf in its den in the Zoological Gardens quietly licking its fur. I go up and stand near it. It makes a face at me. I come a little nearer, it makes a worse face and raises itself up on its haunches. I stand and look. It jumps down from its shelf and makes as if it intended "going for" me. I move back; the Caracal has exerted a moral influence over me which I have been unable to resist. Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself."

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