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    CONEPATUS LEUCONOTUS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexicoplay

    Synonyms:

    badger skunk; Conepatus leuconotus; hog-nosed skunk; hognosed skunk; rooter skunk

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Conepatus leuconotus" is a kind of...):

    polecat; skunk; wood pussy (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae)

    Holonyms ("Conepatus leuconotus" is a member of...):

    Conepatus; genus Conepatus (a genus of Mustelidae)

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