ring-tailed civet catとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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.