English Explanatory Dictionary

vontsira

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any member of the subfamily Galidiinae of small, brown, mongoose-like mammals, from Madagascar.

Word forms

vontsira vontsiras

Etymology

Etymology tree Swahili nguchirobor. Malagasy vontsira English vontsira From Malagasy vontsira (“several similar mongoose-like animals”), borrowed from Swahili nguchiro.

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