Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun polecat

2 senses of polecat

Sense 1
skunk, polecat, wood pussy -- (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae)
       => musteline mammal, mustelid, musteline -- (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)

Sense 2
polecat, fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius -- (dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened)
       => musteline mammal, mustelid, musteline -- (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)