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Polecat   Listen
noun
Polecat  n.  (Zool.)
(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.





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"Polecat" Quotes from Famous Books



... and rest to the party, and the talk was either of ferrets, hares, and rabbits, or of the two rudely carpentered cases which contained well-set-up specimens of teal, cuckoo, wryneck, abnormally marked swallow, pied rat, landrail, and polecat, each being a chapter in the ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior


Words linked to "Polecat" :   hooded skunk, mustelid, ferret, polecat weed, wood pussy, fitch, Mustela, spotted skunk, Mephitis macroura, badger skunk, hog-nosed skunk, musteline, little spotted skunk, Conepatus leuconotus, skunk, foulmart


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