civet 的定义
- a yellowish, unctuous substance with a strong musklike odor, obtained from a pouch in the genital region of civets and used in perfumery.
- any catlike, carnivorous mammal of the subfamily Viverrinae, chiefly of southern Asia and Africa, having a coarse-haired, spotted coat, rounded ears, and a narrow muzzle.
- any of various related or similar animals, as the palm civet.
- cacomistle.
civet 近义词
等同于 feline
更多civet例句
- The SARS virus spread to people from civets infected with a bat coronavirus.
- In China, civets, live wolf pups and pangolins have often been kept in cramped and filthy conditions, allowing diseases to incubate and then spill into human populations.
- That demonstrated a connection to food animals, which was quickly confirmed when a team from Hong Kong found an almost identical virus in civets held in market cages.
- That genetic detective work revealed that civets most likely got the virus from bats and then passed it onto the people who handled civets.
- In the wake of that outbreak, which claimed at least 774 lives worldwide, palm civets were banned from sale or consumption in China.
- Muske-catthe civet-cat; applied as a term of contempt to a fop, as being a person perfumed with musk.
- The civet has nothing in common with the hyna but the glandular pouch, under the tail, and the mane along the neck and back-bone.
- THE generality of naturalists are of opinion that the perfume called civet, or musk, is furnished only by one species of animals.
- Certain it is, that most of the fables which have been related of the hyna, took their rise from the civet.
- The civet brought from Amsterdam is preferred to that which comes from the Levant or the Indies, as being the most genuine.