Definition of "viverrine" []

• Of or belonging to the family Viverridae, which includes small carnivorous mammals such as the civets and mongooses. (adjective)
• A member of the Viverridae. (noun)

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• "They are plantigrade, and are without a caecum or blind gut; the skull, however it may approach to a viverrine or feline shape, has still marked arctoid characteristics."
• "According to Jerdon it is nocturnal, arboreal, and omnivorous, eating small animals, birds, insects, fruit and plants; more wild than viverrine animals in general, but easily tamed."