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FAMILY MUSTELIDAE

Dictionary entry overview: What does family Mustelidae mean?

• FAMILY MUSTELIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MUSTELIDAE has 1 sense:

1. weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens

Familiarity information: FAMILY MUSTELIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FAMILY MUSTELIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

family Mustelidae ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Mustelidae; Mustelidae

Hypernyms ("family Mustelidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Mustelidae"):

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

genus Meles; Meles (in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Melinae)

genus Mellivora; Mellivora (ratels)

genus Melogale; Melogale; Arctonyx; genus Arctonyx; genus Gulo; Gulo; genus Grison (a genus of Mustelidae)

genus Galictis (alternative name for the genus Grison)

genus Martes; Martes (martens)

Charronia; genus Charronia (a genus of Mustelidae)

Melinae; subfamily Melinae (subdivision not used in some classifications: badgers)

genus Spilogale; Spilogale (a genus of Mustelidae)

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

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

genus Poecilogale; Poecilogale (muishonds)

genus Ictonyx; Ictonyx (a genus of Mustelidae)

Lutrinae; subfamily Lutrinae (subdivision not used in some classifications: otters)

genus Lutra; Lutra (in some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae)

Enhydra; genus Enhydra (sea otters)

Mephitinae; subfamily Mephitinae (subdivision not used in some classifications: skunks)

genus Mephitis; Mephitis (in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae)

Conepatus; genus Conepatus; Eira; genus Eira (a genus of Mustelidae)

Holonyms ("family Mustelidae" is a member of...):

Carnivora; order Carnivora (cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia)

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