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noun
- American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.
- synonyms: skunk, wood pussy
- Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened.
- synonyms: fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius
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