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FOULMART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foulmart mean? 

FOULMART (noun)
  The noun FOULMART has 1 sense:

1. dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatenedplay

  Familiarity information: FOULMART used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOULMART (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

fitch; foulmart; foumart; Mustela putorius; polecat

Hypernyms ("foulmart" is a kind of...):

mustelid; musteline; musteline mammal (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foulmart"):

ferret (domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits)

Holonyms ("foulmart" is a member of...):

genus Mustela; Mustela (type genus of the family Mustelidae: minks and weasels)


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