Mongoose definitions

Mongoose

1) Cobra fighter 2) Cobra killer 3) Ferret look-alike 4) Ferretlike animal 5) Ferretlike carnivore 6) Free software programmed in C 7) Genus herpestes 8) Herpestes 9) Hyena cousin 10) Meerkat 11) Nemesis of a cobra 12) Preys on snakes and rodents 13) Snake-killing mammal 14) Viverrine 15) Viverrine mammal
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Mongoose

1) Ichneumon
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Mongoose

Mongoose is the popular English name for 29 of 34 species in the 14 genera of the family Herpestidae, which are small carnivorans that are native to southern Eurasia and mainland Africa. The other five species in the family are the four kusimanses in the genus Crossarchus, and the only species in the genus Suricata: Suricata suricatta, commonly ca...
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Mongoose

• (n.) Alt. of Mongoos • (n.) A Madagascan lemur (Lemur mongos).
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mongoose

any of numerous species of small, bold, predatory carnivores found mainly in Africa but also in southern Asia and southern Europe. Mongooses are ... [2 related articles]
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Mongoose

Mon'goose noun ; plural Mongooses . [ Tamil manegos .] A Madagascan lemur ( Lemur mongos ).
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Mongoose

The mongoose (Herpestes mungo) is a small, Indian carnivorous mammal, allied to the civets, that is often kept for its ability to kill snakes and rats. It was the mongoose ability to kill rats that led to its being introduced into the West Indies in 1872.
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mongoose

[n] - agile grizzled Old World viverrine
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mongoose

noun agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents
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mongoose

Any of a group of carnivorous tropical mammals. The Indian mongoose (H. mungo) is greyish in colour and about 50 cm/1.5 ft long, with a long tail. It can be tamed and is often kept for its ability to kill snakes. Like the snakes themselves, the acetylcholine receptors connecting the mongooses' nerves and muscle cells are ...
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mongoose

a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted esp. for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes. · any of several other animals of this genus or related genera.
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