Polecat

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1. Noun

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. Noun

The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.

3. Noun

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

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