Definitions for mongoose

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mongoose mon·goose

Spelling: [mong-goos, mon-]

IPA: /ˈmɒŋˌgus, ˈmɒn-/

Mongoose is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in mongoose (egmnooos).

Definitions for mongoose

noun

1. a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
2. any of several other animals of this genus or related genera.

Origin of mongoose

1690-1700; Marathi mangūs, variant of muṅgūs

Examples for mongoose

The mongoose is a small beast of prey of the Viverridæ family.

A raja has two wives and the first has six sons, the second only one, who is a mongoose.

When there were no people in the bungalow, did we have any mongoose in the garden?

Is it what they call the mongoose, or monsoon, or something?

And then the old story about the man and his mongoose recurred to me, and I stopped.

Still more watchful is a cobra when he fights with a mongoose.

They are particularly on the watch for the Mediterranean fruit fly and for the mongoose.

How the mongoose took instead to killing chickens has been often told.

So now the question is, how shall he get rid of the mongoose?

The mongoose has run away into the woods and has not come back.