Definition of Herpestes

1. Noun. Mongooses.

Exact synonyms: Genus Herpestes
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Viverridae, Family Viverrinae, Viverridae, Viverrinae
Member holonyms: Mongoose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Herpestes

Hernaria glabra
Herndon
Herne
Hero
Hero of Alexandria
Herod
Herod the Great
Herodian
Herodians
Herodotean
Herodotus
Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza
Heron's formula
Herostratic fame
Herpestes (current term)
Herpestes ichneumon
Herpestes nyula
Herpetoviridae
Herrenvolk
Herrick
Herrickian
Herring bodies
Herriot
Herrmann's syndrome
Herrnhuter
Herrnhuters
Hers' disease

Literary usage of Herpestes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"Herpestes. Distribution.—Africa, south of the Sahara. a. Stuffed South Africa E. L Layard, ... Stuffed South Africa EL Layard, 1859, ASB Herpestes galera. ..."

2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... Ghats inland from Nellore, where it inhabits forests among the hills. SIZE.—Head and body, 20 inches; tail, 19 inches. No. 238. Herpestes SMITHII. ..."

3. Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds of New Guinea, in the Collection of the by John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1859)
"... which is just that of a small Indian Herpestes or Ichneumon, having like that genus a depressed tail with long spreading hair, broad and depressed at ..."

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