Raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings.
Cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes.
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Examples for "civet"
Examples for "civet"
1Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.
2A thick hot smell of bitter almond, civet, cumin, wormseed and orris!
3We are not talking about just civet cats, but all animals, he added.
4There are also many civet-cats, and all sorts of fruit as in China.
5It has many civet-cats, and produces, the noblest elephants in all the east.
1Paradoxurus fasciatus; a civet cat, very common over a large part of the Archipelago.
2He had a snout with dark black eyes set forward, like a civet cat's.
3Among the variety of small animals thus caught I have frequently taken the civet cat.
4Paragonimiasis is enzootic and the civet cat V. civetta seems to be the main natural definitive host in Cameroon.
5If interested, call, one Myanmar seller wrote on an ad showing a civet cat cowering inside of a cage.
6It wasn't a tiger, it was a civet cat- athingrather like a fox, with a long pointed nose and an uncommonly nasty smell.
7Among the "thousand flowers" that contribute to the "Eau de Mille Fleurs" are the civet cat, the musk deer and the sperm whale.
8A strong-smelling piece of skin from the civet cat is often attached to this head ornament, which is also favoured by natives on the Mahakam.
9A coffee picker shows coffee beans excreted by a civet cat in an arabica coffee plantation in North Sumatra's Sidikalang, Indonesia, August 2, 2007.
10We are not talking about just civet cats, but all animals, he added.
11SARS was thought to have crossed to humans from civet cats sold for food.
12He is called the Bassaris, the Civet Cat, Ring-tailed Cat, Coon Cat and Cacomixtle.
13Slideshow (3 images) Civet cats are forbidden, and sanitation is an important issue.
14SARS is likely to have passed from bats to civet cats before invading the human population.
15We likewise killed two or three civet cats; but their flesh is the worst of carrion.
16The prince stated, that he kept two hundred civet cats, two of which he showed Clapperton.
Translations for civet cat