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FOUMART
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Dictionary entry overview: What does foumart mean?
• FOUMART (noun)
The noun FOUMART has 1 sense:
1. dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
Familiarity information: FOUMART used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
fitch; foulmart; foumart; Mustela putorius; polecat
Hypernyms ("foumart" is a kind of...):
mustelid; musteline; musteline mammal (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foumart"):
ferret (domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits)
Holonyms ("foumart" is a member of...):
genus Mustela; Mustela (type genus of the family Mustelidae: minks and weasels)
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