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‖ conepatl|ˈkəʊnɪpɑːt(ə)l, -æ-|
Also conepate.
[Native Mexican name: lit. ‘little fox’; f. conetl, in comp. cone- ‘child’, prefixed to names of animals = ‘young, little’ + epatl fox. (Siméon.)]
An American skunk (genus Conepātus, J. E. Gray, 1837).
[1651F. Hernandez Hist. Plant Anim. & Min. Mexico 332 Alterum [genus] ysquiepatl etiam vocatum..alterum vero conepatl seu vulpecula puerilis. ]1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. iv. iii. 421 Two varieties more of this animal [the skunk], which Mr. Buffon calls the conepate and the zorille. 1812Smellie & Wood tr. Buffon's Nat. Hist. IX. 212 The third Hernandez calls conepatl which name we shall preserve. |