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palm civet
noun
- any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
palm civet
noun
- any of various small civet-like arboreal viverrine mammals of the genera Paradoxurus, Hemigalus, etc, of Africa and S and SE Asia
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Word History and Origins
Origin of palm civet1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
SARS, for example, originated in bats and then infected a palm civet, a catlike mammal native to South and Southeast Asia.
From Time
There are ten or eleven different kinds of these animals, the commonest of which is the Indian palm-civet.
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