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Definition of Mungooses
1. mungoose [n] - See also: mungoose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mungooses
Literary usage of Mungooses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"On the other hand, none of the true mungooses are indigenous to Madagascar, though
one or two of them have been recorded from there; but these would seem ..."
2. Stray Leaves from the Diary of an Indian Officer: Containing an Account of by R. B. Cumberland (1865)
"The mungooses had hardly fair play, as the string round their necks must have
... We had some four or five snakes and mungooses loose at the same time. ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1885)
"Three cobras were thus sacrificed, each of the three mungooses escaping through
... All the three mungooses who had come off victors in the encounters above ..."
4. The Mammals of India: A Natural History of All the Animals Known to Inhabit by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1874)
"The mungooses are very active in their habits, bold and sanguinary in disposition.
They are partly fossorial, and in the hot tropical countries of the old ..."
5. Sugar: A Handbook for Planters and Refiners by Charles George Warnford Lock, Benjamin E. R. Newlands, John A. R. Newlands (1888)
"From these nine animals nearly, if not quite, all the mungooses in the island at
the present time have been obtained. Hence, among the natives, ..."
6. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"Many of the African mungooses are referred to separate genera; ... More or less
nearly allied to the mungooses are several peculiar species from Madagascar, ..."
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