Noun:

இச்னியூமொன்,

ichneumon's Usage Examples:

Other characteristic Carnivora are civets, various ichneumons, and the benturong (Arctictis).

Hymenopterid flowers, which fall into the following groups: Bee-flowers proper, humble-bee flowers requiring a longer proboscis to reach the nectar, wasp-flowers such as fig-wort (Scrophularia nodosa) and ichneumon flowers such as tway-blade (Listera ovata).

The ichneumon (Pharaohs rat) is common and often tame; the coney and jerboa are found in the eastern mountains.

"A Brahmin, leaving home, left his daughter in charge of an ichneumon, which he had long cherished.

The forest regions of Cochin-China harbour the tiger, panther, leopard, tiger-cat, ichneumon, wild boar, deer, buffalo, rhinoceros and elephant, as well as many varieties of monkeys and rats.

ichneumon fly, and lays an egg within this grub, and behold!ichneumon wasp.

This is similar to the repulsive reproductive cycle of the ichneumon wasp.

But the story of the ichneumon or mongoose is a fable.

No group of terrestrial insects escapes their attacks - even larvae boring in wood are detected by ichneumon flies with excessively long ovipositors.

A black snake came up and was killed by the ichneumon, mistakenly killed, in its turn, by the Brahmin on his coming back.

All the other families of Hymenoptera, including the gall-flies, ichneumons and aculeates, have the first abdominal segment closely united with the thorax, the second abdominal segment constricted so as to form a narrow stalk or " waist," and legless larvae without a hinder outlet to the food-canal.

Synonyms:

mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon,

Antonyms:

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