Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any species of the genus Paradoxurus; a palm-cat or palm-marten.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus ). Seemusang .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any
species of Paradoxurus, agenus ofAsiatic viverrine mammals allied to thecivet .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek παράδοξος (paradoxos, "incredible, paradoxical") + οὐρά (oura, "tail"). So called because its tail is unlike that of the other animals to which it was supposed to be related.
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Examples
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(_ictides_), the coati (_nasua_), the paradoxure (_paradoxurus_), and even the curious little teledu of Java (_mydaus_).
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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Kellaart writes of this species: "The golden paradoxure appears to be a more frugivorous animal than the palm-cat (_Paradoxurus typus_ [17]).
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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