cat-faced

cat-faced
 n.— «I mentioned to her the fact that there was a bumble bee’s nest in the big cat-faced pine just over the branch.» —“My Blue-Eyed Babies” by Montgomery M. Folsom Atlanta Constitution (Ga.) Mar. 9, 1890. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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