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carcajou

Noun

car=ca=jou

WORDNET DICTIONARY

carcajou(n = noun.animal) gulo luscus, skunk bear, wolverine - stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal; Array

is a kind of mustelid, musteline, musteline mammal

is a member of genus gulo, gulo

carcajou, n. [Probably a Canadian French corruption of an Indian name of the wolverene.].

The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene. [1913 Webster]

carcajou, n. US = WOLVERINE.

Etymology

F, app. of Amer. Ind. orig.

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