Conepatus leuconotus

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Conepatus leuconotus - large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexicobadger skunk, hognosed skunk, hog-nosed skunk, rooter skunkpolecat, wood pussy, skunk - American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily MephitinaeConepatus, genus Conepatus - a genus of Mustelidae