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Mongoos   Listen
noun
Mongoos, Mongoose  n.  (pl. mongooses)  
1.
(Zool.) A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). (Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous)
2.
A Madagascan lemur (Lemur mongos).





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"Mongoos" Quotes from Famous Books



... its multiplication is prodigious. It is really only the surplus of its swarming that overpours into the cane-fields, and makes the public roads dangerous after dark;—yet more than three hundred snakes have been killed in twelve months on a single plantation. The introduction of the Indian mongoos, or mangouste (ichneumon), proved futile as a means of repressing the evil. The mangouste kills the fer-de-lance when it has a chance but it also kills fowls and sucks their eggs, which condemns it irrevocably with the country negroes, who live to a considerable extent by raising ...
— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn
... another way of avoiding the soliloquy, which is sometimes used with good results. It is to let Hamlet, if that happens to be the name of your character, enter with a small dog, pet falcon, mongoose, tame bear or whatever animal is most in keeping with the part, and confide in this animal such sorrows, hopes or secret history as the audience has got to know. This has the additional advantage of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 • Various


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