stoat
IPA: stˈoʊt
noun
- Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.
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Examples of "stoat" in Sentences
- Like stoat words in a weasel suit.
- This in turn encourages stoat breeding.
- The ermine, or stoat, is a bloodthirsty little villain.
- This is in part due to the absence of stoats and ferrets.
- Locally the stoat is just as often incorrectly called a weasel.
- Methods of restricting stoat breeding are also being investigated.
- Badrang the Tyrant is an anthropomorphic stoat and the main villain.
- The bait is an egg and a trap is placed in the tunnel to kill the stoat.
- In folklore at least, this dance is particularly associated with the stoat.
- In folklore at least, this dance is particularly associated with the stoat .
- Arctic foxes and stoats are some of the smaller carnivores found in the region.
- The clatter of a pheasant call from the field beyond sends the stoat into hiding.
- The stoat scampers along the dry-stone wall, lightly cresting the lichen-covered coping stones.
- Both she and the stoat, with its white winter coat, are looking in the same direction, at something to the viewer's right.
- * An animal called the stoat, a kind of ermine, is said to be found in North America, but very inferior to the European and Asiatic.
- The little English stoat, which is destroyed by the gamekeepers, becomes the beautiful snow-white ermine in Russia and other cold countries. "
- The stacked wood, being undisturbed for the summer months, is a haunt of mice, and the stoat undulates over it, coming down headfirst like a nuthatch.
- A couple of weeks ago I watched an adult stoat carry a vole in its jaws back to the gap in the wall beneath the sycamore tree where I reckon its nest to be.
- She was brought up in the country, rides well (side-saddle), plays a goodish game of tennis, but does not know a stoat from a weasel or notice the direction of the wind.