musteline

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

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  • 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. —  Media Blog
  • 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
 

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  1. Latin mūstēlīnus, of a weasel, from mūstēla, weasel, probably from mūs, mouse; see mūs- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Italian mustellino, from Latin mustelinus, mustellinus, belonging to a weasel, from mustela, a weasel: see Mustela.
  2. from Mustelus+ -ine.
 

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