Also zorilla, -o. [ad. F. zorille, ad. Sp. zorrilla, -illo, dim. of zorra, ZORRO.] An animal of the African genus Zorilla, allied to the skunks; also applied to some Central or South American skunks, as the conepatl.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1824), II. 47. The zorille resembles the skink, but is rather smaller.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., iv. 80. We saw also a couple of Zorillos, or skunks.
1878. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., II. 196. The Cape Zorilla.
1883. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Suppl., Zoril, a variety of the American skunk.
