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Mustelline

//mʌˈstɛlaɪn// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Rare spelling of musteline. alt-of, rare

    "The mustelline group — weasels, otters, minks, badgers, skunks, martens, wolverenes, etc. — are not abundantly preserved as fossils, but their record goes back to the Oligocene, when the types were generalized and quite different from the living ones."

Etymology

From the Latin mūstellīnus, from mūstella, an alternative form of mūstēla; see musteline.

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