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Meanings of civet cat in English
Portuguese
bassarisco Spanish
bassariscus sumichrasti 
Raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings.
Synonyms
Examples for "ringtail"
Examples for "ringtail"
1
The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:
2
Natural infections have been observed only in Australia, in koalas, ringtail possums and a captive alpaca.
3
The authority believes the lemuroid ringtail possum, which is not listed as endangered, could be locally extinct within three years.
4
He calls it a 'bobtail jacket for a ringtail monkey,' and you couldn't get him into one unless you chloroformed him!
5
Animals like the northern hairy nosed wombat, the glossy black cockatoo and the lemuroid ringtail possum are at risk of dying out.
1
There is in this country a variety known as the " coon cat," which is handsome, especially in the solid black.
2
Biggie, Mooney's Maine coon cat, jumped up on the card table and started rubbing his chin on a corner of Alves's wax paper plate.
3
Our fans, our families, our friends and George Harrison, my Maine Coon cat.
4
He is called the Bassaris, the Civet Cat, Ring-tailed Cat, Coon Cat and Cacomixtle.
5
One of these, 8-year-old Maine Coon cat called Fred from Co Westmeath, gave a lick of approval at their launch in the GPO Dublin yesterday.
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The mother of all women had to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd ring-tailed cat.
2
He is called the Ring-tailed Cat.
Usage of civet cat in English
1
Paradoxurus fasciatus; a civet cat, very common over a large part of the Archipelago.
2
He had a snout with dark black eyes set forward, like a civet cat's.
3
Among the variety of small animals thus caught I have frequently taken the civet cat.
4
Paragonimiasis is enzootic and the civet cat V. civetta seems to be the main natural definitive host in Cameroon.
5
If interested, call, one Myanmar seller wrote on an ad showing a civet cat cowering inside of a cage.
6
It wasn't a tiger, it was a civet cat- athingrather like a fox, with a long pointed nose and an uncommonly nasty smell.
7
Among the "thousand flowers" that contribute to the "Eau de Mille Fleurs" are the civet cat, the musk deer and the sperm whale.
8
A 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.
9
A coffee picker shows coffee beans excreted by a civet cat in an arabica coffee plantation in North Sumatra's Sidikalang, Indonesia, August 2, 2007.
10
We are not talking about just civet cats, but all animals, he added.
11
SARS was thought to have crossed to humans from civet cats sold for food.
12
He is called the Bassaris, the Civet Cat, Ring-tailed Cat, Coon Cat and Cacomixtle.
13
Slideshow (3 images) Civet cats are forbidden, and sanitation is an important issue.
14
SARS is likely to have passed from bats to civet cats before invading the human population.
15
We likewise killed two or three civet cats; but their flesh is the worst of carrion.
16
The prince stated, that he kept two hundred civet cats, two of which he showed Clapperton.
Translations for civet cat
Portuguese
Spanish
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