Stoat
[stəʊt] or [stot]
Definition
(noun.) the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
Typist: Shirley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ermine (Mustela erminea), meniver.
Typist: Sanford
Definition
n. a kind of weasel called the ermine when in its winter dress.—Also Stote.
Typist: Trevor
Examples
- On the whole, it was probably some creature of the weasel and stoat tribe--and yet it is larger than any of these that I have seen. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Because of that change which occurs in the color of its fur at different seasons--by far most marked in the Arctic regions--it is not generally known that the ermine and stoat are the same. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The ermine fur, with which we are all familiar, is furnished by the stoat, a small animal of the weasel tribe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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