MONGOOSE meaning: Small carnivorous mammal, elongated body

We found 27 dictionaries that define the word mongoose:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

mongoose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mongoose: Merriam-Webster
mongoose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
mongoose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
mongoose: Collins English Dictionary
mongoose: Vocabulary.com
Mongoose, mongoose: Wordnik
mongoose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
mongoose: Wiktionary
mongoose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
mongoose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
mongoose: Infoplease Dictionary
Mongoose, mongoose: Dictionary.com
mongoose: Online Etymology Dictionary
Mongoose (bicycles), Mongoose (comics), Mongoose (company), Mongoose (disambiguation), Mongoose (microarchitecture), Mongoose (web server), Mongoose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Mongoose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
mongoose: Rhymezone
Mongoose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
mongoose: FreeDictionary.org
mongoose: Mnemonic Dictionary
mongoose: TheFreeDictionary.com

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mongoose: Encyclopedia

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mongoose: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

mongoose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
mongoose: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: Any of several species of generalist predatory carnivores in the family Herpestidae; the various species range in size from rats to large cats. Indian mongooses are predators of venomous snakes, though other mongoose species have similar habits.
▸ noun: Any members of family Eupleridae of Malagasy mongooses, only distantly related to the Herpestidae, but resembling them in appearance and habits, with larger ears and ringed tails.

Opposite:

snake, rodent, predator, carnivore

Phrases:

indian mongoose, banded mongoose, yellow mongoose, Egyptian mongoose, White-tailed mongoose, more...

Adjectives:

indian, small, little, tailed, yellow, grey, slender, banded, egyptian, common, large

Colors:

desert sand, olive green, rust, sepia, khaki, more...

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