| 单词 | striped muishond |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstriped muishond (a) A mongoose, a meerkat. (b) Either of two African mustelids: (a) the zorilla or striped polecat, Ictonyx striatus (more fully striped muishond); (b) the white-naped or striped weasel, Poecilogale albinucha. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Herpestidae muishond1796 mouse-hunt1850 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Ictonyx (zorille) zoril1774 muishond1796 mouse-hunt1850 stink-cat1899 1796 tr. F. Le Vaillant New Trav. Afr. I. 236 It [sc. a stranded whale] was attacked..by different species of those small quadrupeds..which, at the Cape, are known under the general name of muyshond. 1818 C. I. La Trobe Jrnl. Visit S. Afr. 36 We observed a tame mongoose or mausehund from Java..which ran about and suffered itself to be handled. 1835 A. Smith Diary 5 Jan. (1939) I. 204 A hare and a muishond for sale. 1853 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 55 210 Two or three different kinds of Mousehund, or weasel..are commonly seen. 1871 J. McKay Reminisc. 16 Having found a large mouse-and hole, they threw him in head foremost, and there let him lie. 1912 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. (new ed.) 30 Within two yards of us was a striped Muishond with his paws firmly planted on an adult Black-necked cobra. 1952 Cape Argus 12 Jan. 4/5 His request for tame ‘wild’ animals has only produced in Cape Town a muishond and a monkey. 1982 S. Afr. Panorama Aug. 33 Skeletons of bats and a muishond (a type of mongoose). < as lemmas |
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