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Webster 1913 Edition
Tenrec
Ten′rec
,Noun.
[From the native name: cf. F.
tanrac
, tanrec
, tandrec
.] (Zool.)
A small insectivore (
Centetes ecaudatus
), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; – called also tanrec
. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac
.