ring-tailed civet cat

English

Noun

ring-tailed civet cat (plural ring-tailed civet cats)

  1. (regional, dated or obsolete) Synonym of ringtail (“Bassariscus astutus”).
    • 1859, George Ripley, Charles A[nderson] Dana, editors, New American Cyclopædia, volume 8, page 132:
      The only representative of the family viverridæ in America is the ring-tailed civet cat of Mexico and California; it is neither a civet nor a genet, though most resembling the latter, but the Bassaris astuta (Licht.).
    • 2013, Judith Carrington, Juanita Herff Drought Chipman, editors, Eda & Ilse: Domestic Life of Privileged 19th to 20th Century Women, Daughter and Great-Granddaughter of Civic Leader J.H. Kampmann, page 140:
      She never quite succeeded in taming the animals: two squirrels, a fox, and a ring-tailed civet cat.
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