Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various carnivorous mammals of the family Viverridae, which includes the civets and genets.
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- noun zoology Any member of the
family Viverridae .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While some biologists noted a vague superficial similarity with lemurs, most concluded that it was a viverrid: a member of the same carnivoran family as civets and genets*.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Named in 1892 and known from less than 20 specimens, this is a poorly known terrestrial viverrid of montane forests, and good observations and photos of it are few and far between.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Named in 1892 and known from less than 20 specimens, this is a poorly known terrestrial viverrid of montane forests, and good observations and photos of it are few and far between.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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Many viverrid species are highly enigmatic and several have only recently been discovered, have only occasionally been photographed alive, or have even not been photographed alive at all (for a nice review see Schreiber 1989).
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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The adjacent painting is a widely-reproduced image, produced by Wahyu Gumelar for WWF Indonesia, depicting the animal as a new, hitherto unknown viverrid.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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While some biologists noted a vague superficial similarity with lemurs, most concluded that it was a viverrid: a member of the same carnivoran family as civets and genets*.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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Thanks to its long tail, gracile proportions, size (comparable to that of a house cat), and general civet-like appearance, the Kayan Mentarang animal soon became widely regarded as a probable new viverrid.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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The adjacent painting is a widely-reproduced image, produced by Wahyu Gumelar for WWF Indonesia, depicting the animal as a new, hitherto unknown viverrid.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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Many viverrid species are highly enigmatic and several have only recently been discovered, have only occasionally been photographed alive, or have even not been photographed alive at all (for a nice review see Schreiber 1989).
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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Thanks to its long tail, gracile proportions, size (comparable to that of a house cat), and general civet-like appearance, the Kayan Mentarang animal soon became widely regarded as a probable new viverrid.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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