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- noun Plural form of
mongoose .
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Examples
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Very few mongooses, however old and wise, care to follow a cobra into its hole.
Greg Archer: Apps for Parents: New Children's Tales by VivaBook Are Worth Exploring Greg Archer 2011
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Accustomed to hearing the comforting lullabies of police sirens through the windows of my 12th-floor Manhattan apartment, sleeping downhill from an extinct volcano, with polar bears—I guess they could have been mongooses—rooting around the yard made me feel like I was trapped inside Jacob's jungle shack on "Lost."
Aloha? More Like Boo! Sarah Vowell 2011
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Very few mongooses, however old and wise, care to follow a cobra into its hole.
Greg Archer: Apps for Parents: New Children's Tales by VivaBook Are Worth Exploring Greg Archer 2011
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Very few mongooses, however old and wise, care to follow a cobra into its hole.
Greg Archer: Apps for Parents: New Children's Tales by VivaBook Are Worth Exploring Greg Archer 2011
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Very few mongooses, however old and wise, care to follow a cobra into its hole.
Greg Archer: Apps for Parents: New Children's Tales by VivaBook Are Worth Exploring Greg Archer 2011
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Banded mongooses are champion chompers, with needlelike teeth for eating insects, lizards, and small rodents, which are excavated with sharp claws.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Banded mongooses are champion chompers, with needlelike teeth for eating insects, lizards, and small rodents, which are excavated with sharp claws.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Banded mongooses are champion chompers, with needlelike teeth for eating insects, lizards, and small rodents, which are excavated with sharp claws.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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When he last wandered around center, LeBron James was a Cleveland Cavalier, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston were quarreling like mongooses, and England actually thought it had a crack in the World Cup.
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Banded mongooses are champion chompers, with needlelike teeth for eating insects, lizards, and small rodents, which are excavated with sharp claws.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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