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Definition of Musang
1. n. A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat.
Definition of Musang
1. a paradoxure [n -S]
Medical Definition of Musang
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Musang
Literary usage of Musang
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Its habits are in great measure those of the common musang, though it is probably
more ... 77/6- Three-striped musang. NATIVE NAME.—Kyoung-na-ga, in Arakan. ..."
2. Pilgrims to the Isles of Penance: Orchid Gathering in the East by Talbot Clifton, Violet Mary Beauclerk Clifton (1911)
"... -musang, hantu being the Malay word for "spirit" or "devil," and musang standing
for " civet-cat," an animal which brings destruction to the fruit trees ..."
3. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"Nine species of quadrumana, the tiger, black leopard, wild cat, several species
of viverra, such as the musang and binturong, the elephant, ..."
4. Adventures Among the Dyaks of Borneo by Frederick Boyle (1865)
"Chinese Suicide—Stoicism—Purchase of a " Mias"—Description —Great Fright — "
Wa-wa " Ape — musang ..."
5. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"KL 136. CIVET-CAT : ¡long, Sem. K. Ken. ; (spec. Mal. musang ... Max. adds these
specific terms to the generic [ Mai. musang ] ; S 420. Claw. N 3 ; S 53. ..."
6. Wood's Animal Kingdom: Illustrated by John George Wood (1870)
"The musang of Java is, although a destroyer of rats and mice, rather a pest to
... The musang is not content with coffee-berries and other vegetable food, ..."
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