1) European act upset animal 2) Malodorous animal 3) Malodorous creature 4) Malodorous critter 5) Malodorous mammal 6) Mustelid 7) Musteline 8) Musteline mammal 9) Odorous animal 10) Old West scoundrel 11) One not to be trusted 12) Pungent mammal 13) Relative of a sable 14) Skunk 15) Skunk kin 16) Stinker of a mammal
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1) Ferret 2) Fitch 3) Foulmart 4) Foumart
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Polecat is the common name for various medium-sized mammals in the order Carnivora and subfamily Mustelinae. Polecats do not form a single taxonomic rank; the name is applied to several species broadly similar to European polecats, the only species living natively on the British Isles. In the U.S., the term polecat is sometimes applied to the Blac...
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• (n.) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species. • (n.) A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.
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Native to Europe and a member of the Mustelidae family polecats are believed by many to be the wild ancestor to the ferret.
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any of several weasellike carnivores of the family Mustelidae (which includes the weasel, mink, otter, and others). The pelt, especially of the ...
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<zoology> A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odour. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret. ... The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species. ... Origin: Probably fr. F. Poule hen, and originally, a poultry cat, b...
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Pole'cat` noun [ Probably from French
poule hen, and originally, a poultry cat, because it feeds on poultry. See
Poultry .]
(Zoology) (a) A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (
Putorius fœtidus ). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingl...
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The polecat (from the French poule-chat meaning chicken-cat) is an Old World weasel (Mustela putorius) with a brown back and dark belly and two yellow face patches. The body is about 50cm long and it has a strong smell from anal gland secretions. It is native to Asia, Europe, and north Africa. Polecats are mainly nocturnal in habit, sleeping in a t...
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[
n] - dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
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foulmart noun dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
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Old World weasel
Mustela putorius with a brown back and dark belly and two yellow face patches. The body is about 50 cm/20 in long and it has a strong smell from anal gland secretions. It is native to Asia, Europe, and North Africa. In North America, skunks are sometimes called polecats. A ferret is a domesticated polecat
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