MUSTELINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musteline mean? 

• MUSTELINE (noun)
  The noun MUSTELINE has 1 sense:

1. fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals

  Familiarity information: MUSTELINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSTELINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

mustelid; musteline; musteline mammal

Hypernyms ("musteline" is a kind of...):

carnivore (a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musteline"):

weasel (small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck)

mink (slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur)

fitch; foulmart; foumart; Mustela putorius; polecat (dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened)

black-footed ferret; ferret; Mustela nigripes (musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct)

otter (freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur)

Enhydra lutris; sea otter (large marine otter of northern Pacific coasts having very thick dark brown fur)

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

badger (sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)

honey badger; Mellivora capensis; ratel (nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia)

carcajou; Gulo luscus; skunk bear; wolverine (stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal)

glutton; Gulo gulo; wolverine (musteline mammal of northern Eurasia)

Galictis vittatus; grison; Grison vittatus (carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts)

marten; marten cat (agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels)

Eira barbara; taira; tayra (long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America)

Holonyms ("musteline" is a member of...):

family Mustelidae; Mustelidae (weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens)