palm civet
any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
Origin of palm civet
1- Also called palm cat .
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How to use palm civet in a sentence
SARS, for example, originated in bats and then infected a palm civet, a catlike mammal native to South and Southeast Asia.
Inside the Global Quest to Trace the Origins of COVID-19—and Predict Where It Will Go Next | Alice Park | July 23, 2020 | TimeThere are ten or eleven different kinds of these animals, the commonest of which is the Indian palm-civet.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History | Theodore Wood
British Dictionary definitions for palm civet
any of various small civet-like arboreal viverrine mammals of the genera Paradoxurus, Hemigalus, etc, of Africa and S and SE Asia
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