mustelid (redirected from Mustelids)

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A member of the Mustelidae, fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals.

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mustelid  (mst-ld)

Any of various small to midsize carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, usually having long, slender bodies, short legs, and well-developed anal scent glands. The pelts of many mustelids have been important for use in clothing. Weasels, skunks, badgers, wolverines, ferrets, mink, martens, and otters are mustelids.

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mustelid - fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals musteline, musteline mammal carnivore - a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; "terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb" family Mustelidae, Mustelidae - weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens 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, wood pussy, skunk - 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 Gulo gulo, wolverine, glutton - 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