Abyssinian cat

• like Abyssinian + cat

Abyssinian cat (plural Abyssinian cats)

1. A domestic breed of cat with long ears, short hair and a black stripe along the spine.

   Synonyms: Abby / Aby (nickname), Abyssinian

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abyssinian cat”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.
• Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 9