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Definition of mungoose

mungoose
Mongoose Mon"goose, Mongoos Mon"goos, n. (Zo["o]l.) A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]
Mungoose
Mungoose Mun"goose, Mungoos Mun"goos, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Mongoose.

Meaning of mungoose from wikipedia

- was altered to its "-goose" ending by folk etymology. It was spelled "mungoose" in the 18th and 19th centuries. The plural form is "mongooses". Mongooses...
- Robert A. (1884). "No. 236 Herpestes Pallidus vel Griseus The Common Grey Mungoose". Natural history of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon. Calcutta: Thacker...
- cerpelai mongoose (Herpestes sp.) கீரிப்பிள்ளை kīri-p-piḷḷai common Indian mungoose, Indian ichneumon, Herpestes mungo cerpu leather sandals (terompah-like)...
- of Nallamalas, Lankamalas, Palakonda-Seshachalam and Velikonda forests. mungoose, jackal, fox, wolves, wild dogs, bear, the Malabar squirrel, porcupine...
- of Sri Lanka. p. 1012. ISBN 978-955-8576-32-8. Allen, P. R. (1911). "Mungooses in the Eastern Ghats". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society....
- cerpelai mongoose (Herpestes sp.) கீரிப்பிள்ளை kīri-p-piḷḷai common Indian mungoose, Indian ichneumon, Herpestes mungo cerpu leather sandals (terompah-like)...
- Shooting Wolves Watching Antelope...19 Wild Dogs (Cuon rutilans)...25 Mungoose and Cobra...28 Rather a Stopper...31 A Brave Boar...33 The Lesser Florikin...
- Society of London (November): 502–579. Thomas, O. (1882). "On the African Mungooses". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (January): 59–93. Mivart...
- hermaphroditus". A Hand-book to the Carnivora, Part I. Cats, Civets, and Mungooses. London: Edward Lloyd, Limited. p. 239. Wemmer, C. & Watling, D. (1986)...
- woman who does so. Jock of the Bushveld The source uses the spelling "mungoose" throughout; the spelling has been here modernized to "mongoose" for consistency...