Crossword clues for meerkat
meerkat
- Timon of “The Lion King,” e.g
- Southern African mammal that stands sentry
- South African mammal
- Small southern African mammal
- Rake met (anag) — type of mongoose
- Pumbaa's foot-tall pal, e.g
- Prey for a jackal
- Mongoose-like mammal of southern Africa
- Mongoose-like animal
- Mongoose family member that uses its tail to stand erect
- Live-streaming app named after a desert animal
- Kalahari critter
- Disney's Timon, for one
- Animal often pictured standing tall
- "Lion King" beast
- "Animal Planet"-friendly Kalahari carnivore
- "____ Manor"
- African mongoose
- Kalahari Desert dweller
- Timon of "The Lion King," e.g.
- Burrowing animal of southern Africa
- South African mongoose-like viverrine having a face like a lemur and only four toes
- Volatile market brought about end of the neighbourhood watch member
- Mongoose is reportedly only pet
- Animal flesh cut into by queen, starter from kitchen
- Take me abroad to capture river mammal
- Mongoose family member
- Mongoose cousin
- Timon in "The Lion King," e.g
- South African mongoose
- Small African mongoose
- Kalahari mongoose
- Cousin of the mongoose
- Timon, e.g
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "monkey," from Dutch meerkat "monkey" (related to Old High German mericazza), apparently from meer "lake" + kat "cat." But compare Hindi markat, Sanskrit markata "ape," which might serve as a source of a Teutonic folk-etymology, even though the word was in Germanic before any known direct contact with India. First applied to the small South African mammals in 1801.
Wiktionary
n. ''Suricata suricatta'', a small carnivorous mammal of the mongoose family, from the Kalahari Desert, known for its habit of standing on its hind legs.
WordNet
n. a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes [syn: mierkat]
Wikipedia
MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope under construction in the Northern Cape of South Africa. It will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the southern hemisphere until the Square Kilometre Array is completed approximately in 2024. The telescope will be used for research into cosmic magnetism, galactic evolution, the large-scale structure of the cosmos, dark matter and the nature of transient radio sources. It will also serve as a technology demonstrator for South Africa's bid to host the Square Kilometer Array. As of July 2016, only sixteen 13.5-meter diameter (44.3 feet) dish antennae have been completed and are functioning, and the remainder are planned to be in service by 2017.
The Meerkat is the lead vehicle in the Interim Vehicle Mounted Mine Detector IVMMD system, which evolved from a system known as Chubby.
The system is manufactured by the Rolling Stock Division (RSD) of DCD-Dorbyl, a mechanical engineering conglomerate in South Africa.
The Meerkat resembles a cross between a dune buggy and a grader, with a pair of horizontally mounted rectangular panels, one each side, where the grader's blade would be.
The Meerkat is intended only to detect land mines - the related Husky and its trailers are intended to dispose of detected mines.
With its tire pressures lowered, the Meerkat produces a relatively low pressure on the ground below the tires, enabling it to pass over pressure-sensitive mines designed to destroy heavy vehicles. Even if it detonates a mine, the floor of the driver's cabin is armored and the structural components are designed to be quickly replaced.
A meerkat is a small mammal and a member of the mongoose family.
Meerkat may also refer to:
- Meerkat (app), a live streaming mobile application
- Meerkat Manor, a British television programme
- Meerkat (vehicle), a mine detection vehicle
- MeerKAT, a radio telescope
Meerkat is a mobile app that enables users to broadcast live video streaming through their mobile device. Once signed up, Meerkat users have the option of connecting their Facebook and Twitter accounts, and stream directly to their followers as soon as they go live. The app is available for both iOS and Android.
The app was released in February 2015, then quickly found popularity after its debut on the website Product Hunt, as well as widespread use during the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, both in March 2015.
Usage examples of "meerkat".
Often a group of meerkats will take the stance collectively, standing in a huddle and gazing in the same direction, looking like commuters waiting for a bus.
If I set a million meerkats fleeing in terror, the chaos would be indescribable.
I simply walked into what was surely the largest colony of meerkats in the world, one of the strangest, most wonderful experiences of my life.
These meerkats were most definitely a subspecies that had specialized in a fascinating and surprising way.
So, under the gaze of a thousand meerkats, I soaked, allowing fresh water to dissolve every salt crystal that had tainted me.
He confirmed what I had suspected, that these meerkats had gone for so many generations without predators that any notion of flight distance, of flight, of plain fear, had been genetically weeded out of them.
Nothing distracted the meerkats from their little lives of pond staring and algae nibbling.
In his jaws were a number of dead meerkats, which he ate during the night.
The storm, and the resulting minor earthquakes, did not perturb the meerkats in the least.
With the single, notable exception of the meerkats, there was not the least foreign matter on the island, organic or inorganic.
By dint of stuffing himself with meerkats, his weight went up, his fur began to glisten again, and he returned to his healthy look of old.
An entire nation of meerkats was on the move, their backs arched and their feet a blur.
I thought they were coming to attack me, that here was the reason why Richard Parker slept in the lifeboat: during the day the meerkats were docile and harmless, but at night, under their collective weight, they crushed their enemies ruthlessly.
To survive for so long in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal tiger only to die up a tree at the hands of two-pound meerkats struck me as a tragedy too unfair and too ridiculous to bear.
The plain grew thick with meerkats, and the noises of their day started filling the air.