MELES MELES

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A variety of badger native to Europe and Asia

Synonyms:

Eurasian badger; Meles meles

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Meles meles" is a kind of...):

badger (sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)

Holonyms ("Meles meles" is a member of...):

genus Meles; Meles (in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Melinae)

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