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 ;

2. (

• polecat ,
• fitch ,
• foulmart ,
• foumart ,
• Mustela_putorius

) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened ;