单词 | vansire |
释义 | vansiren. Zoology. The marsh-ichneumon ( Herpestes galera) of South Africa. ΘΚΠ 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 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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