Lexic.us

Definition of Ring-tailed cat

1. Noun. Raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring-tailed Cat

Literary usage of Ring-tailed cat

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

1. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"But what the gorgeous train of feathers' is to the peacock its tail is to the ring-tailed cat. The creature stands half crouching, listening to all the ..."

2. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1906)
"But what the gorgeous train of feathers is to the peacock its tail is to the ring-tailed cat. The creature stands half crouching, listening to all the night ..."

3. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
""Here the ring-tailed cat or bassariscus — for he seems to have no generally accepted common name — comes and goes, taking bits of meat to his family ..."

4. Two Bird-lovers in Mexico by William Beebe (1905)
"Here the ring-tailed cat, or Bassariscus, — for he seems to have no generally accepted common name, — comes and goes, taking bits of meat to his family ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Am M 84:18 О '17 Ring and the castle; poem. Bookm 44:625-7 F Ring and the green stone; story. MEW Freeman, il Harper 131:350-9 F '17 ring-tailed cat. ..."

6. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"... Tine-Banded Armadillo, White-Nosed Coati Mondi, Ring-Tailed Cat nd many lesser mammals. In the foothills of the state of Oaxaca, trough which the line ..."

7. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"... undoubtedly, in their time received the same from their elders. Texas Bassaris Bassariscus astutus flavus Rhoads Called also ring-tailed cat, Civet Cat, ..."

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