the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mustela (weasel) > mustela furo (ferret) (8)
A half-tamed variety of the common polecat (Putorius fœtidus), kept for the purpose of driving rabbits from their burrows, destroying rats, etc.
a domestic ferret having the darker brown colouring of the wild European polecat.