mongoose Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents

WordNet


Mon"goose, Mon"goos noun (Also<
  • Mongoose
  • Mongoos
)
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913