Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A viverrine quadruped of the subfamily Paradoxurinæ; a paradoxure: so called from their climbing in and feeding to some extent upon palms.
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Kellaart writes of this species: "The golden paradoxure appears to be a more frugivorous animal than the palm-cat (_Paradoxurus typus_ [17]).
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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