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spotted skunk

noun

  1. either of two small, nocturnal skunks of the genus Spilogale, distinguished by a white forehead patch and a luxuriant coat of broken stripes and spots, including S. putorius of temperate North America and S. pygmaea of Mexico.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of spotted skunk1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

The researchers also found that most of the spotted skunk species could be divided into two groups, or clades, three of which hailed from the east and three from the west.

They include the little brown bat, the plains spotted skunk, the Illinois chorus frog, the golden-winged warbler, Blanding’s turtle, the Mammoth Springs crayfish, two freshwater mussels and a plant called Hall’s bulrush.

Of mammals, Elliot’s short-tailed shrew, the northern long-eared bat, Franklin’s ground squirrel and the spotted skunk benefit.

Northern flying squirrels, mice, birds, chipmunks, spotted skunks, short-tailed weasels, Douglas squirrel, snowshoe hare.

Instead, their cameras captured another rarely seen creature - the spotted skunk, a shy inhabitant of the Upstate’s hills.

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