musang

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musang - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Musang \Mu*sang"\, n. (Zool.)
     A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to
     the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large
     quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to
     disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat
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