mustelid

IPA: mʌstˈɛɫʌd

Any carnivorous mammal of the diverse weasel family Mustelidae, which also includes badgers, otters, martens, mink and wolverines.

Examples of "mustelid" in Sentences

A sable is a mammal in the mustelid weasel family.
Much too kind for the likes of this poor mustelid!
Maybe mink, the slow cousin of the mustelid family.
Ferret badgers are the four species of mustelids of the genus Melogale .
Rodent and mustelid eradication programs are planned for some of the island reserves.
The deceased mustelid up by the golf course has pretty much dried up to a mummy, no apparent smell.
He shot up the last of a roll of film on this little mustelid, and then it disappeared under the front of the truck.
But my dog needs to work off lead, and there are as many skunks mink, too in my hawking fields as in the park: A mustelid meet-up is inevitable.
Conservation officers attempting to track the spread of the rarely-seen fisher (a good-sized mustelid) are using fingerprints to distinguish individual animals.
Dear Steve, yes, I also think it is likely that most of this dirty work is done by someone else, for example and most likely by William M. Connolley – see mustelid.blogspot.com.
The Kentish otters herald a remarkable – if slow – renaissance for the sleek, fish-devouring member of the mustelid family, which declined by 95% of its range in western Europe during the 20th century.