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SPILOGALE PUTORIUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Spilogale putorius mean?
• SPILOGALE PUTORIUS (noun)
The noun SPILOGALE PUTORIUS has 1 sense:
1. small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexico
Familiarity information: SPILOGALE PUTORIUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
little spotted skunk; Spilogale putorius; spotted skunk
Hypernyms ("Spilogale putorius" 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 ("Spilogale putorius" is a member of...):
genus Spilogale; Spilogale (a genus of Mustelidae)
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