zibet
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪbɪt
Noun
zibet (plural zibets)
- (archaic) The large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha).
- 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.
- 1797, Unnamed translator, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Buffon's Natural History, Volume 7, J. S. Barr, page 119,