viverra

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noun

An animal of the genus Viverra; a civet.

OriginLatin vīverra →
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Meanings

nounviverra (plural viverras)

plural viverras

  1. obsoletebiologyAn animal of the genus Viverra; a civet.

    Viverra tigrina, or yellowish-grey weasel. […] Mr. Pennant has referred it to the genus felis, but Mr. Schrader makes it a viverra.

    1829, John Wilkes, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, volume 24, page 410
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    That curious animal, the basset (Bassaris astuta), which has alternately been associated by zoologists with the Ursidæ and Viverridæ, has blood corpuscles more agreeing in size with those of the bears, and consequently distinctly smaller than those of the viverras.

    1862, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume 2, page 269

Origin

  1. Latinvīverra“ferret”
  2. Englishviverra

Borrowed from Latin vīverra (“ferret”).

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