Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Linnean genus of carnivorous quadrupeds which contained 6 species (now placed in different modern families), and which has by successive restrictions been confined to the true civets as the type of the family Viverridæ. See cuts under civet-cat and tangaiung.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun (Zoöl.) A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the family Viverridae

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  • In Modern Egypt this viverra is called "Kitt (or Katt) Far'aun" = Pharaoh's cat: so the Percnopter becomes Pharaoh's hen and the unfortunate (?)

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  • We have the giraffe, seventeen feet high, and the little viverra, a sort of weasel, of three inches.

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  • We have the giraffe, seventeen feet high, and the little viverra, a sort of weasel, of three inches.

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