small civet

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   a common civet of southeast Asia

   SynonymsViverricula indicaViverricula malaccensis

   Broadercivet

Questions about small civet

What does small civet mean?

small civet means "a common civet of southeast Asia".

What is another word for small civet?

Close synonyms include Viverricula indica, Viverricula malaccensis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is small civet a common word?

small civet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.