Crossword clues for mongoose
mongoose
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ichneumon \Ich*neu"mon\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, lit., the tracker; so called because it hunts out the eggs of the crocodile, fr. ? to track or hunt after, fr. 'i`chnos track, footstep.]
(Zo["o]l.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverrid[ae]. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species ( Herpestes ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India ( Herpestes griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.
-
(Zo["o]l.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonid[ae], of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.
Note: The female deposits her eggs upon, or in, the bodies of other insects, such as caterpillars, plant lice, etc. The larva lives upon the internal tissues of the insect in which it is parasitic, and finally kills it. Hence, many of the species are beneficial to agriculture by destroying noxious insects.
Ichneumon fly. See Ichneumon, 2.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"snake-killing ichneumon of India," 1690s, perhaps via Portuguese, from an Indic language (such as Mahrathi mangus "mongoose"), probably ultimately from Dravidian (compare Telugu mangisu, Kanarese mungisi, Tamil mangus). The form of the English word altered by folk-etymology.
Wiktionary
n. carnivores of the family Herpestidae and the similar (vern Malagasy mongoose pedia=1)s (''(taxlink Galidiinae subfamily noshow=1)''), ranging in size from small rats to large cats, including the (vern Indian mongoose pedia=1) famed as a predator of venomous snakes.
WordNet
n. agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents
Wikipedia
Mongoose is the popular English name for 29 of the 34 species in the 14 genera of the family Herpestidae, which are small feliform (see below) carnivorans that are native to southern Eurasia and mainland Africa. The other five species in the family are the four kusimanses in the genus Crossarchus, and the only species in the genus Suricata: Suricata suricatta, commonly called meerkat in English.
Six species in the family Eupleridae, endemic to the island of Madagascar, are also called "mongoose" and were originally classified as a genus within the family Herpestidae, but genetic evidence has since shown that they are more closely related to other Madagascar carnivorans in the family Eupleridae; they have, since 2006, been classified in the subfamily Galidiinae within Eupleridae.
Herpestidae is placed within the suborder Feliformia, together with the cat, hyena, and civet families.
Animals: The word mongoose is used to refer to two types carnivorous mammals:
- The Herpestidae, the "true mongooses".
- The Galidiinae, or "Malagasy mongooses", of Madagascar, which were reclassified from the Herpestidae to the Malagasy carnivore group in 2006.
Mongoose may also refer to:
Mongoose is a brand name of bicycles originally designed, manufactured, and sold by BMX Products, Inc. Mongoose merged in 2001 with Pacific Cycle, a subsidiary of Dorel Industries. It produces several models of BMX, mountain bikes, and street bicycles, making ample use of light weight alloys and magnesium. The company is based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mongoose is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Mongoose and its forks are cross-platform embedded web servers. The small size of the software enables any Internet-connected device to function as a web server. After the original author changed the license from MIT to GPL v2, Mongoose got forked to keep a permissive licensed version available, the one with the most commits being CivetWeb. The different forks then slightly diverged when adding features.
Usage examples of "mongoose".
Stephen was sitting on the capstan, eating a mangosteen and staring at the mongoose as it played with his handkerchief, tossing it up, catching it, worrying it to death.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Antoine de la Mery stroked the head of his pet mongoose, once more balanced precariously on the wheel, as he conned the prize into the bay.
But as a precaution, de la Mery, having as usual hidden his mongoose, had introduced them to his collection on their first trip, making only the slightest allusion to the fate that would follow if they tampered with these despatches.
But the Mongoose was already out of the wagon and plunging into the open door of the gatehouse, spatha in hand.
Civet, Genette, Linsang, Suricate, Binturong and Mongoose, though this last is separated by Jerdon, who follows Blyth.
I did not mind so long as it kept me away from the Starving Mongoose, but this morning Cheng Fu took our son away from his studies.
SA-2 missiles, Secretary of State Rusk had become so worried over the prospects of a shootdown over or near Cuba that he asked for a meeting of the key players in Operation Mongoose.
Not likely that the elephants, the seals, the big cats or the bears would be up and doing, but the baboons, the macaques, the mangabeys, the gibbons, the deer, the tapirs, the llamas, the giraffes, the mongooses were early risers.
The only reason he'd had today free to do some exploring was that the Mongoose was now spending more time in the company of Dhruva and her infant.
Sitting in my enchanted shadows, I vouchsafe daily glimpses of myself‑while she, my squatting glimpser, is captivated, helpless as a mongoose frozen into immobility by the swaying, blinkless eyes of a hooded snake, paralysed‑yes!
But Eddie was at last able to slip-knot one of Roland's gunbelts around her wrists when Roland—using all his force—finally brought them together behind her (all the time drawing back from her lunging bites like a mongoose from a snake.
No rain had fallen here in at least four or five months, and only mongoose, hyraxes, naked mole rats, lizards, grasshoppers, and snakes were going to find this area of the veldt hospitable to their lifestyles.
And with that determined thought, she set her chin, disentangled herself from mongooses and monkey, and went on her nightly rounds to bolster those protections that, she hoped, would keep them all safe.
He became acquainted with the ways of all the animals of the wilderness, learned how to shun the tiger, to make friends with the clever mongoose and the placid hedgehog, and to while away the rainy seasons in the dusky shelter of a makeshift hut where the boys played games, recited verse, or wove baskets and reed mats.
The redheads were everywhere, starting the popcorn machines, blowing up balloons at the helium tank, leaning into the greasy vitals of the Mongoose & Cobra ride to make sure the music was synchronized with the lashing of the chairs that the norms would jounce in.