Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several catlike viverrid mammals of the genera Poiana and Prionodon of Asia and Africa, having a spotted coat and a long banded tail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of civet-cat found in Java, etc., banded with black and white, and having 38 teeth, Prionodon (Linsang) gracilis. A related African species, Prionodon (Poiana) richardsoni, is known as the Guinea linsang.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of Viverridæ, now commonly called
Prionodon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (
Prionodon gracilis ) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii ) is brown with black spots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the members of two superficially
catlike animalspecies classified in themammalian subfamily Prionodontinae.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Malay.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Javanese.
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Examples
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This is a very curious animal, which, like the panda and the linsang, at first misled naturalists in assigning it a place.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Elephants, clouded leopards, spotted linsang, boar and deer thrive below the canopy, which is filled with the song of myna, lapwings, laughing thrushes and other exotic birds.
The Guardian World News Jonathan Watts 2011
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