linsang

Meaning

Noun

• Any of the members of two catlike Asian animal species classified in the mammalian family Prionodontidae (family).
• Any of the members of two superficially catlike African animal species classified in the mammalian family Viverridae.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• banded linsang (Prionodon linsang (species)), delundung; spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor (species))
• Leighton's linsang (Poiana leightoni (species)); African linsang, oyan (Poiana richardsonii (species))

Origin

• Javanese