any of various Old World carnivorous mammals of Viverridae family, esp. of Civettictis, Viverra, and Viverricula, with long bodies, short legs, and a usu. long tail that produce a thick yellowish musky-odoured substance which is in a pouch near their sexual organs;2 civet.

a small, hornless deer (Moschus moschiferus) of the uplands of bÀentral Asia, the male of which secretes musk and has tusk-like upper canines; musk deer.