Crossword clues for mustelid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mustelid \mustelid\ n. A member of the Mustelidae, fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals.
Syn: musteline mammal, musteline.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1910, from Modern Latin Mustelidae, taken as a genus name by Linnaeus (1758), from Latin mustela "weasel," possibly related to mus "mouse" (see mouse (n.)). Tucker tentatively suggests *mus-ters-la "mouse harrier" and Klein notes that the weasel was identified in antiquity as "the catcher of mice."
Wiktionary
n. A carnivorous mammal of the weasel family Mustelidae.
WordNet
n. fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals [syn: musteline mammal, musteline]
Usage examples of "mustelid".
No stoat ever had really good eyesight, but their other keen senses more than compensated for this lack, so this particular mustelid knew just where those rats were, how many they numbered, their sizes, ages, sex, and degree of terror.
Shrill whistling came from the mustelid pens, and roaring barks from the pinniped colony down on the beach below.
Semidomesticated, the long, slender, furry brown mustelids with their white, pointed, gleaming teeth showed no fear of either man or Kleesahk.
As a parting gift for the otters who had done so much for her, she left the carcass of a small-horn buck anchored in fairly deep water near the underwater entrance to the den of the mustelids to make it difficult for other predators to rob her friends.
I’ve got some killer mustelids, but they only kill the rodents I feed them.
Well, I admire his taste in mustelids, if not the way he displays his appreciation.
Crake’s model had been the canids and the mustelids, and a couple of other families and species as well.