a. and sb. Zool. [ad. mod.L. viverrīn-us, f. viverra VIVERRA: See -INE1.]

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  A.  adj. Resembling or related to the civet, or the civet family; spec. belonging to the sub-family Viverrinæ. a. In specific names, as viverrine cat, dasyurus, opossum, etc.

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1800.  Shaw, Gen. Zool., I. II. 491. Viverrine Opossum. Didelphis Viverrina.

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1810.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 4), XII. 497. Dasyurus Viverrinus, Viverrine Dasyurus. Black, spotted with white; tail without spots.

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c. 1880.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., II. 53. The Viverrine Cat, Felis viverrina.

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1885.  Athenæum, 28 March, 412/1. A viverrine phalanger (Phalangista viverrina) from Australia.

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  b.  In general use.

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1874.  Wood, Nat. Hist., 47. A small, but rather important, group of the Viverrine animals.

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1883.  Encycl. Brit., XV. 436/2. Cynogale benettii … is a curious Otter-like modification of the Viverrine type.

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  B.  sb. An individual of the sub-family Viverrinæ.

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c. 1880.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., II. 86. The skull has all the essential characters of that of a Viverrine.

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