- skunk, polecat, wood pussy - American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
--1 is a kind of musteline mammal, mustelid, musteline
--1 has particulars: - polecat, fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius - dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
--2 is a kind of musteline mammal, mustelid, musteline
--2 is a member of Mustela, genus Mustela
--2 has particulars: ferret