Cereal definition, any plant of the grass family yielding an edible grain, as wheat, rye, oats, rice, or corn. See more.
Solid black or grey hair with white roots, so that the catâs coat appears to be smokey (i.e., smokey black with white roots, or smokey grey with white roots). Tabbies. We love tabbies! Tabbies are probably the most common type of homeless cats we see. Tabbies come in lots of colors. The most common is the brown or brown/grey tabby, which generally has brown, black and grey blended together. You can also have grey tabbies, orange tabbies, and cream or buff tabbies.
A. Not true in either case. But male calicos are rare: Only one out of every 3,000 calico cats is male, according to a study by the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Missouri. The gene that governs how the orange color in cats displays is on the X chromosome. Any cat, male or female, can be orange, but in males the color is nearly always expressed in the tabby (striped) pattern, sometimes called a ginger tom. Females can be orange tabby, calico or tortoiseshell. Because the orange is divided among tabbies, torties or calicoes in females, there are fewer of each type.