civet
Example Sentences
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Even Walmart’s website sells a roughly two-pound bag of Kopi Luwak coffee, which is made of beans excreted by a civet, for $449.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
The results showed that faunivory was much more common in three of the civet species than previously thought.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
Some civet coffee plantations have also increasingly branched out to include tourist interactions, raising new concerns about the animals’ welfare.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 12, 2023
Viruses leap from bats to humans either by way of an intermediary host, such as a pig, chimpanzee or civet, or more directly through human contact with bat urine, feces, blood, or saliva.
From Reuters ● May 16, 2023
Then she rubbed me all over with some liniment that burned like fire and smelled like a civet cat.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
