Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Paradoxure
Parˊa-dox′ure
(păr′ȧ-dŏks′ū̍r)
, Noun.
[Gr.
παράδοξοσ
incredible, paradoxical + οὐρά
tail. So called because its tail is unlike that of the other animals to which it was supposed to be related.] (Zool.)
Any species of
Paradoxurus
, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
). See Musang
.