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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An eminence; a mound; a summit.
  • noun A kind of civetcat; the lesser civet, a viverrine quadruped of the genus Viverricula, V. malaccensis, widely distributed in China, India, the Malay peninsula, Java, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.

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  • noun Viverricula indica, the small Indian civet.

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