polecat - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened

Synonyms

• Mustela putorius
• fitch
• foulmart
• foumart
• polecat

More generic

• mustelid
• musteline
• musteline mammal

More specific

• ferret

Related

• Mustela
• genus Mustela

Noun

American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

Synonyms

• polecat
• skunk
• wood pussy

More generic

• mustelid
• musteline
• musteline mammal

More specific

• Conepatus leuconotus
• Mephitis macroura
• Mephitis mephitis
• Spilogale putorius
• badger skunk
• hog-nosed skunk
• hognosed skunk
• hooded skunk
• little spotted skunk
• rooter skunk
• spotted skunk
• striped skunk

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