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MUSTELID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals
Synonyms:
mustelid; musteline; musteline mammal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mustelid" is a kind of...):
carnivore (a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mustelid"):
weasel (small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck)
mink (slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur)
fitch; foulmart; foumart; Mustela putorius; polecat (dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened)
black-footed ferret; ferret; Mustela nigripes (musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct)
otter (freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur)
Enhydra lutris; sea otter (large marine otter of northern Pacific coasts having very thick dark brown fur)
polecat; skunk; wood pussy (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae)
badger (sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)
honey badger; Mellivora capensis; ratel (nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia)
carcajou; Gulo luscus; skunk bear; wolverine (stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal)
glutton; Gulo gulo; wolverine (musteline mammal of northern Eurasia)
Galictis vittatus; grison; Grison vittatus (carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts)
marten; marten cat (agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels)
Eira barbara; taira; tayra (long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America)
Holonyms ("mustelid" is a member of...):
family Mustelidae; Mustelidae (weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens)
