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Перевод: civet

[существительное]
виверра [зоол.] ; циветта [зоол.] ; цибетин [зоол.]

Тезаурус:

1. The more expensive perfumes on the market contain animal secretions, such as musk from the ventral pouches of the Himalayan musk deer, castoreum from the beaver's anal gland and civet, scraped from the anal sacs of African cats, while many of the cheaper ones include synthesised forms of these scents.
2. "Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary," said Wexford to Clytemnestra, "to sweeten my imagination."
3. Other members of the civet family (the Viveridae) are the spotted and banded linsang and the rasse.
4. They were not even allowed to attempt to grow things in tubs in their black area, for reasons vague but peremptory, put forward by their landlady, an octogenarian Mrs Irving, who inhabited the three floors above them in a rank civet fug amongst unnumbered cats, and who kept the garden as bright and wholesome and well-ordered as her living-room was sparse and decomposing.
5. Old favourites like civet cat and woodpecker vie with the Peking duck and drunken prawns for your attention.
6. The binturong, largest of the civet family, grows to 3 ft (91 cm) in length.