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mongoose
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mongoose
small, cat-sized mammal in the family Viverridae. There are a number of varieties and genera including the Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) and the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo). A voracious eater of rodents and reptiles and a favorite house pet.
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That house of tin and driftwood among the giant fronds, that grove, that plank beneath the loblolly tree upon which to chop the plantain, ginger, pineapple, that sawed-off oil drum in which to build a fire for the rice, all among the toothed leaves, the pungent ganga, the lizards and mongeese, the scuttling landcrabs.
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To whom it may concern, I need two mongeese," he wrote.
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