Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Mustelidæ, formerly nearly coextensive with the family, but now restricted; the martens and sables.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The type genus of the family
Mustelidae: minks and weasels.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the family Mustelidae: minks and weasels
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Examples
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But even as the reforms were being written, mustela congressa lobbyista was busily burrowing its way into the new majority, inserting weaselly language that lets lobbyists continue slipping corporate money to lawmakers.
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There's also the mustela congressa lobbyista, which is that mischievous grouping of Washington lobbyists who habitually team up with certain congress-critters to burrow loopholes in our country's ethics laws.
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Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.)
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This cannot be the mustela of the antients, which is supposed to be the sea lamprey.
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Catus (which Isidore derives from catare, to look for) = gatto, chat, cat, an animal unknown to the Classics of Europe who used the mustela or putorius vulgaris and different species of viverræ.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.)
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The ermine is of the genus mustela (weasel), and resembles the common weasel in its form, is from fourteen to sixteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836
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Europe and Siberia, and is also of the genus mustela.
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836
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Wallich informs us that the ladies of his time had recourse, on such occasions, to the brains of the mustela piscis.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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The several species of mustela are common, as the mink, weasel and polecat; (putorius) racoons and opossums, are in great abundance, these animals are esteemed delicious and healthy food.
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