Definition of Mellivora

1. Noun. Ratels.

Exact synonyms: Genus Mellivora
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Mustelidae, Mustelidae
Member holonyms: Honey Badger, Mellivora Capensis, Ratel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mellivora

Melilotus alba
Melilotus officinalis
Melina Mercouri
Melinae
Melinda
Meliphagidae
Melisha
Melissa officinalis
Melitene
Melkite
Melkonian
Melkonyan
Mellaril
Mellissa
Mellivora
Mellivora capensis
Mellon
Melnick-Needles syndrome
Melocactus
Melodie
Melody
Melogale
Meloidae
Melolontha
Melolontha melolontha
Melolonthidae
Melony
Melophagus
Melophagus ovinus

Literary usage of Mellivora

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. East African Mammals in the United States National Museum by Ned Hollister (1918)
"mellivora capensis TRUE, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 15, p. 455. (Not of Schreber.) 1910. mellivora ratel ROOSEVELT, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. ..."

2. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"The single Oriental species of ratel (mellivora) is restricted to India, ... INDIAN RATEL (mellivora ratel), migrated into Africa while there was a free ..."

3. The Mammals of India: A Natural History of All the Animals Known to Inhabit by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1874)
"mellivora, Storr. Syn. ... mellivora indica* Ursus apud SHAW.—HARDWICKE, Linn. Tran. IX. 115, with figure. ..."

4. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"GENUS mellivora. Tubercular grinder transverse; flesh-tooth larger, with a small internal lobe, ... mellivora INDICA. The Indian Raie l or Honey-Badger ..."

5. A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company by East India Company Museum, Thomas Horsfield (1851)
"The genus mellivora forms a natural transition to the second family of this order : the , Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. Mus. Syst. List. XXI. a. URSINA. ..."

6. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"mellivora ratel, Gray, List Mamm. BM p. 68; PZS 1865, mellivora capensis, ... mellivora leuconota. Smaller: black; back white, purer towards the crown. ..."

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