stoat

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stoat /stəʊt $ stoʊt/ noun [countable]  HBAa small wild animal, similar to a weasel, that has a long thin body and brown fur 白鼬，扫雪鼬

Examples from the Corpus

stoat• While out ploughing a horseman had noticed a stoat some distance away stalking a rabbit.• He found a dead stoat lying near the hedge.• Others were machine-gunned on the wire and hung there like stoats until cut down.• In a nearby bush a defunct oxyacetylene cutter attracted the attention of a passing stoat.• And so in their turn came the fox and the stoat and the weasel.• The crow sleeps glutted and the stoat begins.• It was easy then, as the horseman saw, for the stoat to make its kill.• The stoat was gradually moving round unobserved by the rabbit.

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stoat
stoat /stəʊt $ stoʊt/ noun [countable]
a small wild animal, similar to a weasel, that has a long thin body and brown fur

stoatBrE /stəʊt/ 🔊NAmE /stoʊt/ 🔊 nouna small wild animal with a long body and brown fur that, in northern areas, turns white in winter. The white fur is called ermine. 白鼬