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noun northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs
originLearned borrowing from Latin ichneumōn, from Ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων (ikhneúmōn, “tracker”), from ἴχνος (íkhnos, “track, footstep”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0