Have you heard of civet cat coffee? It's a coffee that's made out of cat poo.
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Civet
//ˈsɪ.vɪt//
Synonyms for "civet" (28 found)
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2 entriesderived
16 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
92 translations across 55 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- siwet noun (cat-like animal)
- siwetkat noun (cat-like animal)
Arabic
1 entries- زَبَاد noun (cat-like animal)
Assamese
4 entries- জহামলা noun (cat-like animal)
- জহামলা noun (perfume)
- জহামাল noun (cat-like animal)
- জহামাল noun (perfume)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- musang noun (cat-like animal)
Bulgarian
1 entries- цибет noun (cat-like animal)
Catalan
2 entries- algàlia noun (perfume)
- civeta noun (cat-like animal)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 靈貓 /灵猫 noun (cat-like animal)
- 麝貓 /麝猫 noun (cat-like animal)
- 麝貓香 /麝猫香 noun (perfume)
- 麝香貓 /麝香猫 noun (cat-like animal)
Czech
1 entries- cibetka noun (cat-like animal)
Dutch
1 entries- civetkat noun (cat-like animal)
Esperanto
1 entries- zibeto noun (cat-like animal)
Estonian
1 entries- tsiibet noun (cat-like animal)
Finnish
3 entries- sivetti noun (cat-like animal)
- sivetti noun (perfume)
- sivettikissa noun (cat-like animal)
French
1 entries- civette noun (cat-like animal)
Georgian
3 entries- აფრიკული ვივერა noun (cat-like animal)
- ციბეტა noun (cat-like animal)
- ციბეტინი noun (cat-like animal)
German
2 entries- Zibet noun (perfume)
- Zibetkatze noun (cat-like animal)
Greek
2 entries- μοσχογαλή η κιβέττη noun (cat-like animal)
- μόσχος noun (perfume)
Gujarati
1 entries- જબાદી બિલાડી noun (cat-like animal)
Hindi
4 entries- कस्तूरी बिलाव noun (cat-like animal)
- गंधबिलाव noun (cat-like animal)
- गन्धमार्जार noun (cat-like animal)
- जुबाद noun (cat-like animal)
Hungarian
1 entries- cibetmacska noun (cat-like animal)
Indonesian
1 entries- musang noun (cat-like animal)
Iraqw
1 entries- qaynai noun (cat-like animal)
Italian
1 entries- zibetto noun (cat-like animal)
Japanese
2 entries- 霊猫 noun (cat-like animal)
- 麝香猫 noun (cat-like animal)
Javanese
2 entries- dhèdhès noun (perfume)
- rasé noun (cat-like animal)
Kannada
2 entries- ಪುನುಗು noun (perfume)
- ಪುನುಗು ಬೆಕ್ಕು noun (cat-like animal)
Karang
1 entries- bayti̧w noun (cat-like animal)
Khmer
1 entries- សំពោច noun (cat-like animal)
Kimaragang
1 entries- kaka'a noun (cat-like animal)
Korean
1 entries- 사향고양이 noun (cat-like animal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- civeta noun (cat-like animal)
Malagasy
1 entries- alazy noun (cat-like animal)
Malay
2 entries- luak noun (cat-like animal)
- musang noun (cat-like animal)
Njyem
1 entries- jwɔb noun (cat-like animal)
Nkonya
1 entries- tsamboyi noun (cat-like animal)
Oromo
1 entries- tirenye noun (cat-like animal)
Persian
4 entries- زباد noun (cat-like animal)
- زباد noun (perfume)
- غالیه noun (perfume)
- گربه زباد noun (cat-like animal)
Polish
2 entries- cywet noun (perfume)
- cyweta noun (cat-like animal)
Portuguese
3 entries- algália noun (perfume)
- civeta noun (cat-like animal)
- gato-de-algália noun (cat-like animal)
Romanian
1 entries- zibetă noun (cat-like animal)
Russian
3 entries- виве́рра noun (cat-like animal)
- цибети́н noun (perfume)
- циве́тта noun (cat-like animal)
Sanskrit
2 entries- गन्धमार्जार noun (cat-like animal)
- गन्धमृग noun (cat-like animal)
Sebop
1 entries- pugah noun (cat-like animal)
Senoufo Djimini
1 entries- cɛnpige noun (cat-like animal)
Spanish
2 entries- almizcle noun (perfume)
- civeta noun (cat-like animal)
Sundanese
1 entries- jebad noun (perfume)
Swahili
2 entries- ngawa noun (cat-like animal)
- zabadi noun (perfume)
Swedish
2 entries- sibet noun (perfume)
- sibetolja noun (perfume)
Tagal Murut
2 entries- binangki' noun (cat-like animal)
- munin noun (cat-like animal)
Tagalog
1 entries- alamid noun (cat-like animal)
Telugu
1 entries- పునుగుపిల్లి noun (cat-like animal)
Thai
1 entries- ชะมด noun (cat-like animal)
Turkish
1 entries- misk kedisi noun (cat-like animal)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cầy noun (cat-like animal)
West Coast Bajau
1 entries- puju noun (cat-like animal)
Yoruba
1 entries- ẹtà noun (cat-like animal)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The spokesman for the World Health Organization, Iain Simpson, says there is no conclusive evidence linking the animal, the civet cat, to the SARS outbreak.
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Genetic evidence shows COVID probably did not come directly from a bat, but from a civet.
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LEONATO. Indeed he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard. DON PEDRO. Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him out by that? CLAUDIO. That's as much as to say the sweet youth's in love.
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