HOODED SKUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hooded skunk mean? 

• HOODED SKUNK (noun)
  The noun HOODED SKUNK has 1 sense:

1. of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States

  Familiarity information: HOODED SKUNK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOODED SKUNK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hooded skunk; Mephitis macroura

Hypernyms ("hooded 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 ("hooded skunk" is a member of...):

genus Mephitis; Mephitis (in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae)