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mongoose
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mongoose has 1 sense
- mongoose(n = noun.animal) Array - agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents; Array is a kind of viverrine, viverrine mammal
is a member of genus herpestes, herpestes
has particulars: herpestes nyula, indian mongoose, herpestes ichneumon, ichneumon
CIDE DICTIONARY
mongoose, n.
- A species of ichneumon (
Herpestes griseus ), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus ). [1913 Webster] - A Madagascan lemur (
Lemur mongos ). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mongoose, n. (pl. mongooses) any of various small flesh-eating civet-like mammals of the family Viverridae, esp. of the genus Herpestes.
Etymology
Marathi mangus
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