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Definition of Suricate
1. Noun. Burrowing diurnal meerkat of southern Africa; often kept as a pet.
Definition of Suricate
1. Noun. The meerkat, a member of the mongoose family. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suricate
1. a burrowing mammal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suricate
Literary usage of Suricate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Log-book of a Fisherman and Zoologist by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1883)
"LITTLE JEMMY," THE suricate. ... "—the " Prairie dog " being an American animal,
like a marmot—but that he was the Zenick or suricate of Southern Africa. ..."
2. Notes and Jottings from Animal Life by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"MY suricate, JEMMY THE THIRD; JOE, THE TAME HARE ; AND MY JACKASS. As company
for the monkeys and myself for many yea past I have had a ' Jemmy. ..."
3. Sketches in Natural History: History of the Mammalia by Charles Knight (1849)
"We first select the suricate. A nose remarkably long, ... and close ears, give
a peculiar expression to the physiognomy of the suricate. ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The suricate lives in caves and rock crevices, and will dig burrows. ...
The suricate is largely vegetarian, living upon roots. Fro. 203.—suricate. ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"Erxleben, Gmelin, Sfc., made the suricate one of the species of their Viverra,
... The suricate is now a sub-genus of the reformed subdivisions of the ..."
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