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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the Mustelidae, the family of fur-bearing mammals that includes the badger, mink, otter, and weasel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Resembling a marten or weasel; of or pertaining to the Mustelinæ, or, in a broader sense, to the Mustelidæ or weasel family.
  2. Specifically, tawny, like a weasel in summer; fawn-colored.
  3. n. A musteline mammal; a member of the Mustelinæ.
  4. Dogfish-like; of or pertaining to the Mustelinæ.
  5. n. A musteline fish.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. zoology Like or relating to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidæ, or the weasels and martens.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals

Etymologies

  1. From the Latin mūstēlīnus, from mūstēla ("weasel"), from mūs ("mouse”, “rat"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin mūstēlīnus, of a weasel, from mūstēla, weasel, probably from mūs, mouse; see mūs- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The direction of Ms. Clinton's musteline personality is determined by the direction of the current political breeze.”

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  • “We now come to the third group of the musteline animals, the most aquatic of all the Fissipedia -- the _Lutridae_ or Otters -- of which there are two great divisions, the common Otters (_Lutra_) and the”

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

  • “He went so far as to deploy the legally fraught term defamatory, which is the musteline way of subtly raising the specter of a legal threat.”

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  • “American sloth W 1883 OW mephitine skunk W soricine shrew 1781 - moschine musk deer c1878 OW OW talpine mole 1860 OW musteline weasel, mink tapirine tapir”

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hypernyms (1)

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  1. carnivore

hyponyms (33)

Words that are more specific

  1. fitch
  2. marten cat
  3. grison vittatus
  4. wolverine
  5. mink
  6. mellivora capensis
  1. otter
  2. carcajou
  3. skunk
  4. skunk bear
  5. mustela nigripes
  6. taira
  1. mustela putorius
  2. galictis vittatus
  3. grison
  4. gulo luscus
  5. marten
  6. ferret
  1. badger
  2. glutton
  3. wood pussy
  4. weasel
  5. ratel
  6. foumart
  1. tayra
  2. black-footed ferret
  3. honey badger
  4. eira barbara
  5. sea otter
  6. foulmart
  1. polecat
  2. enhydra lutris
  3. gulo gulo

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. taira
  2. wolverine
  1. wood pussy
  2. polecat
  1. glutton
  2. gulo gulo
  1. mustela nigripes
  2. skunk
  1. black-footed ferret
  2. ferret
  1. musteline
  2. promephitis

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  1. animal
  2. color
  1. mammal
  2. animals
  1. colors
  2. mammals
  1. fur
  2. weasel
  1. brown
  2. mustelid
  1. quardrpeds
  2. furs

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  • hernesheir (adj): of or pertaining to the weasel or marten family; having the brown coloration of the weasel.
    (n): a marten or weasel. Jan 11, 2009

  • emily_morine Weasel-like. Dec 8, 2006

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