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Manx cat   Listen
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Manx cat  n.  (Zool.), A breed of domestic cats having a rudimentary tail, containing only about three vertebrae. It is believed to have originated on the Isle of Man.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Manx cat" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fie! for shame! This way, Hugh;" and we went east, through Pine street, and so to the back of our garden, where we found a way in, and, walking under the peach-trees, came to where my mother sat beneath a plum-tree, shelling peas, her great Manx cat ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell

... five his time was his own, and a very good deal of this time he devoted to Henley and Morris and Walt Whitman, an ancient brier between his teeth and a canister of excellent tobacco at his elbow. Odd, isn't it, that an Englishman without his pipe is as incomplete as a Manx cat, which, as doubtless you know, has no tail. After all, does a Manx cat know that it is incomplete? Let me say, then, as incomplete as ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath



Words linked to "Manx cat" :   domestic cat, Felis catus, Manx, Felis domesticus



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