Crossword clues for stoat
stoat
- Weasel-like animal
- Weasel cousin
- Ermine, in summer
- Weasel family member
- Mink's kin
- Mink cousin
- Fur animal
- Ferret's cousin
- Weasel kin
- Weasel's relative
- Ferret cousin
- Mink kin
- Brown weasel
- Source of brown fur
- Small Eurasian mammal
- Ferret relative
- Ermine with a summer coat
- Type of weasel
- Large weasel
- Weasel-like creature
- Relative of a mink
- European ermine
- Ermine in the summer
- Ermine in its brown summer coat
- Ermine by another name
- Cousin of the weasel and ferret
- Valuable fur animal
- Sometimes-white animal
- Predator of the kiwi
- It wears a brown coat in summer
- Hot-weather ermine
- Eurasian mammal
- Ermine, in the summer
- Ermine, by another name
- Ermine with a brown coat
- Chestnut weasel
- Animal that's a little weaselly?
- Not-so-prized fur
- Summer ermine
- Brown fur source
- Weasel in brown
- Brown ermine
- Ermine, at times
- Relative of a weasel
- Certain fur
- Animal with a black-tipped tail
- Brown-coated ermine
- Cousin of a weasel
- Fur source
- Certain weasel
- Short-tailed weasel
- Brown coat
- Coat fur
- The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
- Ermine in summertime?
- Weasel of a sort
- Brown-furred ermine
- Ermine in its summer coat
- Weasel prized for its fur
- Colorful ermine
- Ermine in a summer coat
- A weasel
- One of the weasels
- Relative of 35 Across
- Ermine in brown
- Weasel relative
- Member of weasel family
- Member of the weasel family
- Children about to pick up a small furry creature
- Ermine Street coming across to Alconbury at first
- Small but perfectly formed animal
- Animal small, just right
- Mink's cousin
- Weasel's cousin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoat \Stoat\, n. [OE. stot a stoat, horse, bullock; perhaps originally only of male animals, and akin to D. stooten to push, E. stutter; cf. Icel. st?tr a bull, Sw. stut a bullock. Cf. Stot.] (Zo["o]l.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., stote, "the ermine, especially in its brown summer coat," of uncertain origin. The word bears resemblance to Old Norse stutr "bull," Swedish stut "bull," Danish stud "ox," but the sense is difficult unless a common notion is "male animal."
Wiktionary
n. ''Mustela erminea'', the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.
WordNet
n. the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
Wikipedia
The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the short-tailed weasel, is a mammal of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. The name ermine is often, but not always, used for the animal in its pure white winter coat, or the fur thereof. In the late 19th century, stoats were introduced into New Zealand to control rabbits, where the stoats have had a devastating effect on native bird populations.
It is classed by the IUCN as least concern, due to its wide circumpolar distribution, and because it does not face any significant threat to its survival. It was nominated as one of the world's top 100 "worst invaders".
Ermine luxury fur was used by Catholic monarchs in the 15th century, who sometimes used it as the mozzetta cape. It was also used in capes on images such as the Infant Jesus of Prague.
Usage examples of "stoat".
He would have felt and looked more at home there than any of the periwigged Persons of Quality who darted across its stone floor, nervously, like stoats trying to make it across a darkling sandbar before owls could stoop on them.
He pierced both eyes of a beast that was part stoat, part gharial, but it continued to writhe silently toward him, flicking its leathery tail from side to side, yellow puslike emissions seeping from around the fletchings of the arrows embedded deep within its sockets.
He glanced up to see Carina hopping and leaping madly, like a jerboa, while the Harnish shaman darted in zigzags and circles like a stoat while beating on the skin drum.
They saw stoats hunting again - though not in packs - and an animal they took to be a polecat, making off through reeds with a mallard in its jaws.
He dashed after polecats and stoats -- ermine in summer-brown coats -- and backed off when the dauntless predators held their ground.
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.
Any bloody fool of an amphibious parrot or disgraceful three-winged stoat had as much chance of survival, of success, as the slickest, the niftiest, the most singleminded dreck-eating ratlet or invincibly carapaced predator.
With the dogs and ponies, the pheasants and rabbits, the weasels and the stoats, and the ferrets in their hutches, the place seemed really to belong more to the animals than to the tenant.
He dashed after polecats and stoats -- ermine in summer-brown coats -- and backed off when the dauntless predators held their ground.
Palmer Stoat tinkled the ice cubes in his glass and awaited a reply from the vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Palmer Stoat had waited until they reached the back nine before bracing the cagey vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Melanie, still smiling at Stoat, slowly eased the door closed, shooing her hand lethargically at the astonished cop as if he were a bluetail fly.
His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain.
While falling, Stoat had squeezed off two wild rounds that struck a hapless grackle and a cabbage palm, respectively.
The digital Motorola started ringing, and Stoat checked the caller ID.