fissipèdes

Definitions of fissipèdes
  1. noun
    fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals
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    belette
    small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck
    putois
    dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
    mouffette
    American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
    glouton
    musteline mammal of northern Eurasia
    martre
    agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels
    hermine
    mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat
    furet
    domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits
    martre zibeline
    marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
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    carnivore
    a terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal
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