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Mongoose   /mˈɑŋgus/   Listen
Mongoose

noun
(pl. mongooses)
1.
Agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents.



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Indian mongoose


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"Mongoose" Quotes from Famous Books



... to mention certain domestic pests, abound in a few places, and there are some scorpions and centipedes; but these, like measles, smallpox, tuberculosis, and worse diseases, are adjuncts of an enforced civilization. The mongoose, brought in to destroy rats, and the myna bird, to devour insects, are themselves now beginning to ...
— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke


Words linked to "Mongoose" :   ichneumon, Indian mongoose, genus Herpestes, Herpestes nyula, Herpestes ichneumon, viverrine, Herpestes, viverrine mammal


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