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单词 vansire
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vansiren.

Etymology: < French vansire, formed by Buffon (1765) from the Malagasy name, given by him as vohang- or voangshira (otherwise recorded as vontsira).
Zoology.
The marsh-ichneumon ( Herpestes galera) of South Africa.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 362 To the ferret kind we may add an animal which Mr. Buffon calls the Vansire, the skin of which was sent him stuffed, from Madagascar.
1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VII. 221* The vansire..is a native of Madagascar and the interior parts of Africa.
1831 Proc. Comm. Sci. & Corr. Zool. Soc. London 1830–1 1 v. 57 M. Goudot has brought a small carnivorous animal, which he states to be the true vansire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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