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Definition of Paradoxurus
1. Noun. Palm civets.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Viverridae, Family Viverrinae, Viverridae, Viverrinae
Member holonyms: Palm Cat, Palm Civet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paradoxurus
Literary usage of Paradoxurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Paradoxurus is a misnomer, signifying queer-tailed, which originated in an abnormal
twist in the tail of the specimen first described and named by MF Cuvier ..."
2. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"Blanford in his monograph of the genus Paradoxurus (PZS, 1885, p. 780) divided
the common toddy cat into two distinct species ; it seems however more in ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The Paradoxurus, Fr. Cuv. Has the teeth and most of the characters of the Genets,
with •which it was a long time confounded; it is however more stout- ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"In these respects, he allows that it agrees with Paradoxurus ; as it does also
in the nakedness ol the soles of the feet, and in the union of the toes ..."
5. A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, John Wright (1831)
"The Javanese Civet...The Genet... The Paradoxurus...The Prehensile Paradoxurus.
THE LION. IT has been remarked, that in all hot climates, ..."
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