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Webster 1913 Edition

Mongoos

{

Mon′goose

,

Mon′goos

}

,

Noun.

;

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

.]