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zibet

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • rhymes with -ɪbɪt

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noun

Meaning 1

The large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Examples

  • 1797, Unnamed translator, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Buffon's Natural History, Volume 7, J. S. Barr, page 119, Certain it is, that our zibet bears a ṡtronger reṡemblance to the muṡk animal than to the civet, and conṡequently they may be conṡidered as the ṡame ṡpecies.
  • 1807, Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, A General History of Quadrupeds, 5th Edition, T. Bewick and S. Hodgson, page 273, The perfume of the Zibet is peculiarly violent and piercing, beyond that of either the Civet or the Genet.
  • 1863, Cassell's Popular Natural History, Volume 1, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, page 366, The zibet is comparatively stout, the neck short and thick, and the breast full and distended. The head is regularly attenuated and wedge-shaped in the rasse; in the zibet it is swelled, rounded, and bulging before the ears, and then contracted very abruptly to a short muzzle.

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