Meaning of ring-tailed civet cat | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of ringtail (“Bassariscus astutus”).

dated, obsolete, regional

Examples

“The only representative of the family viverridæ in America is the ring-tailed civet cat of Mexico and California; it is neither a civet nor a genet, though most resembling the latter, but the Bassaris astuta (Licht.).”

“She never quite succeeded in taming the animals: two squirrels, a fox, and a ring-tailed civet cat.”

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