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Definition of Mungoose
1. n. See Mongoose.
Definition of Mungoose
1. Noun. (archaic form of mongoose) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mungoose
1. mongoose [n -S] - See also: mongoose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mungoose
Literary usage of Mungoose
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)
"poison of a snake is injected into the veins of a mungoose it proves fatal. ...
The cry of the mungoose is a grating mew, varied occasionally by a little ..."
2. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"Another species of Ichneumon or mungoose (Herpestes- grisius) is so easily ...
Though small, this mungoose is absolutely fearless, and its movements are so ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1913)
"XXV Description of a New Water mungoose from East Africa, by N. Hollister Note«
on the Distribution of some Colorado Mammals, by Edward R. Warren A New ..."
4. A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India by Charles Acland (1879)
"I managed to get him into a bottle, which I filled with spirits. The mungoose is
very fond of serpents; he kills and eats them with great rapidity, ..."
5. Wild Game in Zambezia by Reginald Charles Fulke Maugham (1914)
"CIVET : GENET : mungoose CHEETAHS or Hunting Leopards are not very numerous in
the Zambezi valley, occurring perhaps most plentifully between ..."
6. Sport in East Central Africa: Being an Account of Hunting Trips in by Frederick Vaughan Kirby (1899)
"... in a storm—South-easters— Red duiker and Livingstone's antelope — Rufous
mungoose—Fever— ... mungoose ..."
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