Definitions
dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
Word origin
Shortening of fitchew, or directly borrowed from its antecedent, Middle Dutch vitsche (“polecat”). More at fitchew.
Used in a sentence
“Putorius eversmanni michnoi Kastsch, Transbaikalian steppe fitch. No specimens were collected by the Expedition, but a single skull of an adult male was received from a Russian trapper who secured it during the past[…]”
“Striped fitch has coarser hair and is not so valuable.”
“Snail clover (sainfoin), gallion or petty muggalt, wild fitch and haver (oat) grass were all recommended as profitable forage, but what the second was I do not know.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Polecat relative”5 letters
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