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Word: Meerkat
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 19th century: from South African Dutch, from Dutch, ‘long-tailed monkey’, apparently from meer ‘sea’ + kat ‘cat’, but perhaps originally an alteration of a word from an Asian language; compare with Hindi markaṭ ‘ape’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈmɪəkat
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a small southern African mongoose, especially the suricate.
Short Definition:small southern African mongoose
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