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HOGNOSED SKUNK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico
Synonyms:
badger skunk; Conepatus leuconotus; hog-nosed skunk; hognosed skunk; rooter skunk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hognosed 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 ("hognosed skunk" is a member of...):
Conepatus; genus Conepatus (a genus of Mustelidae)
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