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Definition of Small civet
1. Noun. A common civet of southeast Asia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Small Civet
Literary usage of Small civet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Game in Zambezia by Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham (1914)
"On one occasion I saw a small civet captured and carried off bodily in the talons
of a large eagle of whose identity I was at the time uncertain, ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... and the Land of Nimrod (1897), an account of his excavations. BASSE (from
Javanese rasa, from Skt. rasa, flavor, taste). A Malacca weasel. A small civet ..."
3. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"To the Malays is due the introduction of the small civet known as the rasse into
Madagascar. Whether the dingo, or native dog of Australia, was introduced ..."
4. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"548 ; Thomas PZS, 1886, p. 55 ; Blanford Mammals, p. 100. The small civet ; Mushak
billi, Deccani and Hindustani ; Gandha gokul, Bengali ; Kasturi, ..."
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