Meaning & use
Ferals
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Animals, especially cats or other once-domesticated species, that live in a wild, untamed state; informally, "feral" used as a plural noun.
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The shelter runs a program to trap, neuter, and release the local ferals.
A colony of ferals lived behind the abandoned warehouse.
A note on using this word
Using "ferals" as a plain noun, rather than "feral" as an adjective, is informal but common in everyday speech about stray or wild-living animals.
Words with a similar meaning
feral animalsstrays
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Words with an opposite meaning
petsdomesticates
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