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mustelid - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun Mustelidae , fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun carnivorous mammal of the weasel family Mustelidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Mūstēlidae , family name, from mūstēla , weasel, probably from mūs , mouse; see mūs- in Indo-European roots.]
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The Kentish otters herald a remarkable – if slow – renaissance for the sleek, fish-devouring member of the mustelid family, which declined by 95% of its range in western Europe during the 20th century.
Otters are back – in every county in England 2011
Conservation officers attempting to track the spread of the rarely-seen fisher (a good-sized mustelid ) are using fingerprints to distinguish individual animals.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
Maybe mink, the slow cousin of the mustelid family.
Memento Mori à Trois | clusterflock 2009
Rodent and mustelid eradication programs are planned for some of the island reserves.
Richmond temperate forests 2008
But my dog needs to work off lead, and there are as many skunks mink, too in my hawking fields as in the park: A mustelid meet-up is inevitable.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
But my dog needs to work off lead, and there are as many skunks mink, too in my hawking fields as in the park: A mustelid meet-up is inevitable.
Rina and The Skunk 2006
The deceased mustelid up by the golf course has pretty much dried up to a mummy, no apparent smell.
We hates airlineses... jhetley 2005
Dear Steve, yes, I also think it is likely that most of this dirty work is done by someone else, for example and most likely by William M. Connolley – see mustelid .blogspot.com.
Is Gavin Schmidt Honest? « Climate Audit 2005
He shot up the last of a roll of film on this little mustelid , and then it disappeared under the front of the truck.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
Much too kind for the likes of this poor mustelid !
Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse Richard Bach 2002
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