civets in English

noun
1
a slender nocturnal carnivorous mammal with a barred and spotted coat and well-developed anal scent glands, native to Africa and Asia.
The main suspect to date is the civet cat , a cat-like mammal closely related to the mongoose.
noun
    civet cat

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1. Civets.

2. Some, such as the civets, are represented in other zoogeographical regions.

3. He tried wine importation, brick manufacture, hosiery and the making of perfume from the glands of civets.

4. Binturongs are related to a group of catlike Asian carnivores in the Family Viverridae, which includes civets and genets

5. The temple tried to re-obtain the civets by stating that without these animals it would go against their ageless religious practices.

6. As part of the campaign officials are also investigating restaurants which serve endangered or protected species such as cobras, pangolins and civets.

7. The Binturong (Arctictis Binturong) is a medium-sized mammal, also known as a bearcat, of the Viverridae family, which includes civets, linsangs and …

8. Although the Binturong is sometimes called a bearcat, it is not actually related either to bears or to cats, they are more closely related to civets and genets.

9. In 1993, Géraldine Veron and François Catzeflis published a DNA hybridization study suggesting that the fossa was more closely related to mongooses (family Herpestidae) than to cats or civets.

10. These differences initially led to the species in this family sharing common names with, and being placed in the different families of, apparently more similar species on the mainland (e.g. civets and mongoose).

11. Carnivora: ( kar-niv'ŏ-ră ), An order of chiefly flesh-eating mammals that includes the cats, dogs, bears, civets, minks, and hyenas, as well as the raccoon and panda; some species are omnivorous or herbivorous

12. Alternate spellings: "Aelurophobia," "elurophobia." The Greek word "ailourous" has also given us the English word "Ailuroidea," a zoological term for a group of carnivorous animals including cats, hyenas and civets