AMERICAN BADGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American badger mean? 

• AMERICAN BADGER (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN BADGER has 1 sense:

1. a variety of badger native to America

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN BADGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN BADGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variety of badger native to America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American badger; Taxidea taxus

Hypernyms ("American badger" is a kind of...):

badger (sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)

Holonyms ("American badger" is a member of...):

genus Taxidea; Taxidea (in some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae)