HOG-NOSED SKUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hog-nosed skunk mean? 

• HOG-NOSED SKUNK (noun)
  The noun HOG-NOSED SKUNK has 1 sense:

1. large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico

  Familiarity information: HOG-NOSED SKUNK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOG-NOSED SKUNK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

badger skunk; Conepatus leuconotus; hog-nosed skunk; hognosed skunk; rooter skunk

Hypernyms ("hog-nosed skunk" is a kind of...):

polecat; skunk; wood pussy (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae)

Holonyms ("hog-nosed skunk" is a member of...):

Conepatus; genus Conepatus (a genus of Mustelidae)