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ROOTER SKUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rooter skunk mean? 

ROOTER SKUNK (noun)
  The noun ROOTER SKUNK has 1 sense:

1. large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexicoplay

  Familiarity information: ROOTER SKUNK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ROOTER SKUNK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

badger skunk; Conepatus leuconotus; hog-nosed skunk; hognosed skunk; rooter skunk

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

Conepatus; genus Conepatus (a genus of Mustelidae)


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