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caracal

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car⋅a⋅cal

  [kar-uh-kal]
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–noun
1. a slender, catlike mammal, Lynx caracal, with a reddish-brown coat and long tufted ears, inhabiting northern Africa and India.
2. the fur of this animal.
Origin:
1750–60; < F, appar. Buffon's adaption of Turk karakulak lynx (kara black + kulak ear)
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car·a·cal   (kār'ə-kāl')   
n.  A wildcat (Felis caracal syn. Lynx caracal) of Africa and southern Asia having short fawn-colored fur and long tufted ears.

[French, from Ottoman Turkish qaraqūlāq : qara, black + qūlāq, ear.]
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