The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Musang \Mu*sang"\, n. (Zool.)
A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to
the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large
quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to
disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also {coffee
rat}.
[1913 Webster]
