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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Zoöl.) A species of ichneumon (
Herpestes nyula ). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings.
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The Garangan of Java is an ichneumon; and so also are the Mongoos and Nyula of Nepaul; while in the Malay peninsula is a species known as the Malacca ichneumon.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850
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