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paradoxure

paradoxure


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Paradoxure  \Par`a*dox"ure\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  incredible,  paradoxical  + 
  ?  tail.  So  called  because  its  tail  is  unlike  that  of  the 
  other  animals  to  which  it  was  supposed  to  be  related.] 
  (Zo["o]l.) 
  Any  species  of  {Paradoxurus},  a  genus  of  Asiatic  viverrine 
  mammals  allied  to  the  civet,  as  the  musang,  and  the  luwack  or 
  palm  cat  ({Paradoxurus  hermaphroditus}).  See  {Musang}.