adj. Of or pertaining to the civets of the Viverrinae order;
n. Any cat of the order Viverrinae
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to the Viverridæ, or Civet family.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Of or pertaining to the Viverridx; viverriform in a proper sense; more particularly, belonging to the Viverrinæ; not herpestine.
n. A member of the Viverridæ, and especially of the Viverrinæ.
n. Also viverrin.
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n. small cat-like predatory mammals of warmer parts of the Old World
Word Usage
"They are plantigrade, and are without a caecum or blind gut; the skull, however it may approach to a viverrine or feline shape, has still marked arctoid characteristics."