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Mongoose   /mˈɑŋgus/   Listen
Mongoose

noun
(pl. mongooses)
1.
Agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents.



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Indian mongoose


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"Mongoose" Quotes from Famous Books



... still another way of avoiding the soliloquy, which is sometimes used with good results. It is to let Hamlet, if that happen to be the name of your character, enter with a small dog, pet falcon, mongoose, tame bear or whatever animal is most in keeping with the part, and confide in this animal such sorrows, hopes or secret history as the audience has got to know. This has the additional advantage of putting ...
— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne


Words linked to "Mongoose" :   ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon, viverrine mammal, viverrine, Herpestes nyula, Indian mongoose, genus Herpestes, Herpestes


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