carnivore - terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb

family Mustelidae, Mustelidae - weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens

weasel - small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck

mink - slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur

fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat - dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened

black-footed ferret, ferret, Mustela nigripes - ferret of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct

otter - freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur

Enhydra lutris, sea otter - large marine otter of northern Pacific coasts having very thick dark brown fur

polecat, wood pussy, skunk - American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae

badger - sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

honey badger, Mellivora capensis, ratel - nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia

carcajou, Gulo luscus, skunk bear, wolverine - stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal

Gulo gulo, wolverine, glutton - wolverine of northern Eurasia

Galictis vittatus, grison, Grison vittatus - carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a grayish-white back and dark underparts

marten, marten cat - agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels

Eira barbara, taira, tayra - long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America