Mongoose

['mɒŋguːs] or ['mɑŋɡus]

(noun.) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents.

Typed by Carla--From WordNet

(n.) Alt. of Mongoos

Edited by Julia

n. a common ichneumon of India often domesticated to destroy snakes.—Also Mung′oose.

Checker: Thomas

It's a mongoose, I cried. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by Adrian