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Definition: LINSANG |
LINSANGNoun1. Any viverrine mammal of the genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots. |
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| Poiana richardsoni
Prionodon linsang Prionodon pardicolor |
''This article is about the animals called linsangs, which include genus Poiana. For the town in Romania called Poiana, see Poiana, Romania.
The linsangs are three species of the mammalian family Viverridae, which also includes the civets, genets and fossas. They are grouped into two genera: the monospecific African genus Poiana and the Asian genus Prionodon. Both genera are placed in the subfamily Viverrinae, along with several others.
Linsangs are nocturnal, generally solitary tree dwellers. As is characteristic of the Viverridae, they are carnivorous, eating squirrels and other rodents, small birds, lizards and insects. Typical size is a little over 30cm (1 foot), with a tail that more than doubles that length. Bodies are long, with short legs, giving a low appearance. All species have yellowish bodies with black markings (stripes, blotches and spots), though the distribution and nature of the markings varies between species.
The linsangs are remarkable for their morphological resemblance to cats, family Felidae, which is greater than in the other viverrids; although both groups lie within the superfamily Feliformia, this is an example of convergent evolution.
The species of linsang are:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Linsang."
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Prionodon linsang, Prionodon pardicolor. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LINSANG": linsangs. (additional references) | |
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"LINSANG" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alyansang, Linson, lisant, Liscano, lisning, Minzhang. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-n-s" | |
-1 letter: algins, aligns, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, saning, signal. | |
-2 letters: algin, align, anils, gains, glans, glias, liang, ligan, linga, lings, linns, nails, slain, slang, sling, snail. | |
-3 letters: agin, ails, ains, anil, anis, gain, gals, gins, glia, inns, lags, lain, lang, ling, linn, lins, nags, nail, nans, nils, sail, sain, sang, sial, sign, sing, slag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: anglings, eanlings, landings, leanings, linsangs, loanings, sandling, slanging, slanting, snailing, snarling. | |
+2 letters: analysing, anilingus, bantlings, cleansing, enslaving, ganglions, gantlines, gleanings, handlings, hangnails, hanseling, islanding, learnings, mantlings, panelings, pangolins, plainsong, plankings, plannings, plantings, sandaling, sandlings, scantling, signaling, signalman, signalmen, snaffling, spangling, unlashing, unsealing, weanlings, yeanlings. | |
+3 letters: alignments, ankylosing, bengalines, blazonings, canalising, eglantines, enclasping, ensilaging, ensnarling, finalising, galantines, handseling, hanselling, inclasping, insolating, installing, insulating, langostino, lanuginous, leavenings, nasalising, nasalizing, panellings, penalising, plainsongs, planishing, salinizing, sandalling, sanderling, sanguinely, scandaling, scantlings, signalling, signalment, slackening, slandering, slanginess, slantingly, sneakingly, spanceling, strangling, unclasping, unleashing, unpleasing, unsaddling, unsnarling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 49 4E 53 41 4E 47 |
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