palm civet

noun

variants or less commonly palm cat

: any of various arboreal civets: such as

a

: any of several black-spotted or black-striped yellowish gray or brownish gray civets of Paradoxurus or related genera that are widely distributed in southeastern Asia and the East Indies

b

: an African civet of the genus Nandinia

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