SPOTTED SKUNK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexico

Synonyms:

little spotted skunk; Spilogale putorius; spotted skunk

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("spotted skunk" 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 ("spotted skunk" is a member of...):

genus Spilogale; Spilogale (a genus of Mustelidae)

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