palm civet
noun
any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
Also called
palm cat.
Origin of palm civet
First recorded in 1840–50
Words nearby palm civet
palm beach,
palm beach gardens,
palm berry,
palm cabbage,
palm chat,
palm civet,
palm crab,
palm desert,
palm family,
palm islands,
palm leaf
Example sentences from the Web for palm civet
There are ten or eleven different kinds of these animals, the commonest of which is the Indian palm-civet.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History |Theodore Wood
British Dictionary definitions for palm civet
palm civet
noun
any of various small civet-like arboreal viverrine mammals of the genera Paradoxurus, Hemigalus, etc, of Africa and S and SE Asia