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Definition of Honey badger

1. Noun. Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia.

Definition of Honey badger

1. Noun. ''Mellivora capensis'', a badger-like mustelid native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Honey Badger

Literary usage of Honey badger

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)
"... protect it from stings of bees, on which this genus is supposed to feed whenever it can. No. 174. MELLIVORA INDICA. The Indian Raie l or Honey-Badger ..."

2. Reading, Grade 6 by Martha Cheney, Daniel W Palmer (2005)
"This African bird works together with an animal called the honey badger. The honey badger is a tough little mammal that eats many kinds of food, ..."

3. The Last of the Masai by Sidney Langford Hinde, Hildegarde Beatrice (Ginsburg) Hinde (1901)
"Despite the fact that this animal is known as the honey- badger, its chief food consists of insects and small carnivora. ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"One sample contained as high as 88 per cent, of commercial glucose. See also BEE. HONEY-BADGER. See BADGER; RATEL. HONEY-BEAR (so called from its fondness ..."

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