Mongoose (disambiguation)
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Animals: The word mongoose is used to refer to two types carnivorous mammals:
- The Herpestidae, the "true mongooses".
- The Galidiinae, or "Malagasy mongooses", of Madagascar, which were reclassified from the Herpestidae to the Malagasy carnivore group in 2006.
Mongoose or The Mongoose may also refer to:
People
- Adam Rose is more commonly called "The Radical Mongoose" but this has also been shortened to "The Mongoose"
- The Mongoose, nickname of Tom McEwen, an American drag racer
Technology
- Mongoose (bicycles), a brand name of bicycles produced by Pacific Cycle
- Mongoose-V, a series of 32-bit computer processors used for NASA satellites
- Mongoose Cricket Bat, a cricket bat for 20/20 games
- Agusta A129 Mangusta ("Mongoose"), attack helicopter
- Mongoose (web server), a webserver
- Mongoose, a data-modelling format for MongoDB data
Fiction and fictional characters
- Mongoose (comics), a Marvel Comics super-villain
- The Mongoose, a notorious hitman in Jean van Hamme & William Vance's graphic novel, XIII
- Mongoose, nickname of fictional basketball player Billy Joe Cuthbert
- Gef the Talking Mongoose, the myth of a ghostly mongoose from the Isle of Man
- Sauce for the Mongoose, a novel written by Bruce Kinloch about a family adopting a mongoose as a pet
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a mongoose who eats snakes
- The Mongoose, a pulp fiction character created by Johnston McCulley (1883-1958)
Other
- Mongoose Publishing, British manufacturer of role-playing books, pewter miniatures, and card games
- Mongoose Harewood, a footballer
- Operation Mongoose, the code name of one of several military actions
See also
- All pages beginning with "mongoose"
- All pages with titles containing mongoose
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