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