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Stoat

noun
1.
The ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.





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"Stoat" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jonathan Beaver, escaped from the trappers, Sloth, Tortoise, and Dormouse, notorious nappers. That beau, the musk-Ox, with his long scented hair, And John Bull just arrived on his travels, were there; Messrs. Martin, Hare, Squirrel, the Ermine, and Stoat, And the rock-mountain sheep, with his cousin, the goat; Then the sociable marmot, and tiny shrew mouse, The raccoon and agouti from hollow-tree house. Chinchilla the soft, musk and Canada rats, ...
— The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic • F. B. C.
... weasels having been tamed; but it is very difficult to make any impression on their affections, although they are very sagacious, and sagacious animals are more easily influenced than others. The weasel and the stoat are so often mistaken for each other, that it will be well to point out the constant difference in each. The stoat is brown above, dirty white underneath; his tail is longer and more bushy than that of the weasel, and ...
— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee


Words linked to "Stoat" :   shorttail weasel, Mustela erminea, ermine


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