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MONGOOSE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mongoose" is a kind of...):

viverrine; viverrine mammal (small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mongoose"):

Herpestes nyula; Indian mongoose (keen-sighted viverrine of southern Asia about the size of a ferret; often domesticated)

Herpestes ichneumon; ichneumon (northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs)

Holonyms ("mongoose" is a member of...):

genus Herpestes; Herpestes (mongooses)

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