ring-tailed cat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "They bear in the United States the name of civet, Mexican, or ring-tailed cats, and are frequently tamed in Mexico and California; in the latter country they are great pets of the miners."
- "The Cacomixle, Civet, or ring-tailed Cat, as it is indifferently called by the miners of the districts where it is found, is a puzzling little creature, which was, until quite recently, placed in the Civet family […]"
- "Her father and her mother were the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat. They were the best father and mother left after my father and mother. The coyote is very wise; the moon is very old, but who ever heard much of anything of credit to the grasshopper and the ring-tailed cat? The Nishinam are always right. The mother of all women had to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd, ring-tailed cat."
- "The ringtailed cat is an excellent climber and hunts in trees for small birds. Is it really a cat? No! The ringtailed cat is part of the raccoon family. Like the red fox, it hunts alone at night."
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
ringtail
species Bassariscus astutus
bassarisk
cacomistle
cacomixle
coon cat
raccoon fox
civet cat
miner's cat
bassariscus astutus