"mustelid" | Definition and Related Words

mustelid

Noun

Fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals (synset 102443957)
is a type of: carnivore - a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
subtypes:
- 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
belongs to: family mustelidae, mustelidae - weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens

same as: musteline, musteline mammal

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