NOUN
- cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes
- raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings
How To Use civet cat In A Sentence
- The sale of civet cat is banned in Hong Kong, but people still cross into China to eat it, and other exotic animals.
- The nearby sanctuary is home to the barking, the spotted and the mouse deer, the gaur, the civet cat, the tiger and the elephant, besides a variety of birds and reptiles.
- The main suspect to date is the civet cat, a cat-like mammal closely related to the mongoose.
- Though their sleek torsos and short, limber legs may seem catlike, civet cats aren't really felines.
- Of the Digitigrada there are the otter or water-dog, the musang and climbing musang, the civet cat, the royal tiger, the spotted black tiger, in whose glossy raven-black coat the characteristic markings are seen in certain lights; the tiger cat, the leopard, the Java cat, and four or five others. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
- `His breath smells worse than asafoetida, and the grease he uses on his moustaches stinks like a civet cat on heat. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- This includes the civet cat which is known to be a carrier of the disease.
- Civet cats are not true cats, but short-haired mammals with long bodies, short legs, and tails.
- `His breath smells worse than asafoetida, and the grease he uses on his moustaches stinks like a civet cat on heat. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- On behalf of all civet cats I have to register a protest.
