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MELES MELES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Meles meles mean?
• MELES MELES (noun)
The noun MELES MELES has 1 sense:
1. a variety of badger native to Europe and Asia
Familiarity information: MELES MELES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variety of badger native to Europe and Asia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Eurasian badger; Meles meles
Hypernyms ("Meles meles" is a kind of...):
badger (sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)
Holonyms ("Meles meles" is a member of...):
genus Meles; Meles (in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Melinae)
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