Felidae (novel) a best-seller. The initial print run of the novel in Germany was 7000 copies, but the publisher began producing more after the book's success. Worldwide, "Felidae" has sold millions of copies. A German animated film, also called "Felidae", produced in 1994 and directed by Michael Schaack was based on the first "Felidae" novel of the same name. The movie script was co-written by Pirinçci. It was the most expensive animated film produced in Germany, reportedly costing 10 million marks. Felidae (novel) Felidae is a 1989 crime fiction novel by the German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat
International scientific vocabulary root before another root or prefix that starts with a vowel, e.g. gastroenteritis; but elision happens in gastrectomy (not gastroectomy). The Greek word τέρας (τέρατο-) = "monster" is usually used to mean "monster (abnormal)" (e.g. teratology, teratogen), but some biological names use it to mean "monster (enormous)" (e.g. the extinct animals "Teratornis" (a condor with a 12-foot wingspan) and "Terataspis" (a trilobite 2 feet long)). International scientific vocabulary International scientific vocabulary (ISV) comprises scientific and specialized words whose language of origin may or may not be certain, but which are in current use in several modern languages (that is, translingually).