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ichneumon [ik-new-mon] Noun a greyish-brown mongoose
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| But natural selection can and does often produce structures for the direct injury of other species, as we see in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are deposited in the living bodies of other insects. "Well, some call them that, and some call them ichneumon," said the man. |
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