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Meaning of viverra | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

An animal of the genus Viverra; a civet.

obsolete

Examples

“Viverra tigrina, or yellowish-grey weasel. […] Mr. Pennant has referred it to the genus felis, but Mr. Schrader makes it a viverra.”
“That curious animal, the basset (Bassaris astuta), which has alternately been associated by zoologists with the Ursidæ and Viverridæ, has blood corpuscles more agreeing in size with those of the bears, and consequently distinctly smaller than those of the viverras.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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