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Noun polecat has 2 senses
  1. 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:
     striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis; hooded skunk, Mephitis macroura; hog-nosed skunk, hognosed skunk, badger skunk, rooter skunk, Conepatus leuconotus; spotted skunk, little spotted skunk, Spilogale putorius
  2. 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
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