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单词 indian mouse
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Indian mouse
Indian mouse n. [compare post-classical Latin mus Indicus (of uncertain date)] Obsolete a mongoose; esp. the Egyptian mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Herpestidae > genus Herpestes (mongoose)
ichneumon1572
rat of Inde1601
Pharaoh's rat1605
Indian mouse1607
Pharaoh's mouse1607
Indian rat1613
mongoose1673
mungo1752
vansire1774
yellow mongoose1917
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 448 Marcellus and Solinus, doe make question of this beast (Ichneumon) to be a kind of Otter... There be some that call it an Indian Mouse.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Indian Mouse, a little Creature that creeps into the Mouths of Crocodiles, and eating up their Entrails kills them.
1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. xvi. 301 The Tree-striped Indian Mouse, living in cocoa-nut trees... This is by him [sc. Ray] called a Mangust, being the name given it by the natives... The body is in shape like that of a Weasel.
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