Thesaurus: polecat

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1. n. A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.
2. n. The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.
3. n. American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
4. n. dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
5. (a) A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret. (b) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.
6. n:100 n. dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened