fossane
/ˈfɒseɪn/Now rare
noun
The Malagasy or striped civet, Fossa fossana (family Viverridae), a ground-living, genet-like carnivore endemic to Madagascar.
- The fossane and other Madagascan carnivores are now sometimes placed in a separate family, Eupleridae..
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, traveller, and writer. From French fossane, probably ultimately from Malagasy fosa + -ane, of uncertain origin.
- rackle
- rackle-handed
- rackle-tongued
- rack lever
- rack-master
- rack-mount
- rack-mountable
- rack-mounted
- rack mounting
- rack of bones
- rack (or wrack) one's brains (or brain)
- rack-out
- rack pillar
- rack pin
- rack pole
- rack punch
- rack rail
- rack railway
- rack rate
- rack rent
- rack-rental
- rack-renter
- rack rod
- rack saw
- rack side