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    SPOTTED SKUNK

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexicoplay

    Synonyms:

    little spotted skunk; Spilogale putorius; spotted skunk

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("spotted 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 ("spotted skunk" is a member of...):

    genus Spilogale; Spilogale (a genus of Mustelidae)

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