HOG-NOSED SKUNK

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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

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hog-nosed 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 ("hog-nosed skunk" is a member of...):

Conepatus; genus Conepatus (a genus of Mustelidae)

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