Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Paradoxure \Par`a*dox"ure\, n. [Gr. ? incredible, paradoxical +
   ? tail. So called because its tail is unlike that of the
   other animals to which it was supposed to be related.]
   (Zo["o]l.)
   Any species of {Paradoxurus}, a genus of Asiatic viverrine
   mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or
   palm cat ({Paradoxurus hermaphroditus}). See {Musang}.

Source : WordNet®

Paradoxurus
     n : palm civets [syn: {genus Paradoxurus}]