stoat's Usage Examples:

The wild animals are bears, wolves, foxes, lynxes, wild cats, badgers, otters, martens, stoats and weasels.

stoats seen in summer, whether the tail was white or black.

Other species found on the reserve include roe and fallow deer, fox, stoat, harvest mouse and occasional dormouse.

Mice and voles also find cover here, attracting predators including stoats, foxes and birds of prey.

stoat's tail always stays black.

The skull is conical, stout and heavy, and the teeth, although sharper and less rounded than those of badgers, are less suited to a carnivorous diet than those of stoats, weasels and martens.

To check the increase of the rabbit, stoats, weasels and polecats (the last in the form of the domesticated ferret) were introduced into New Zealand on a very large scale in the last quarter of the 19th century.

The importation of stoats and weasels, ferrets and cats has resulted in a process of extermination which has already made it necessary to set aside the islets Resolution, Kapiti and Little Barrier as sanctuaries.

stoats killed by gamekeepers are hunted with dogs.

In upland areas up to 25% of the stoats killed by gamekeepers are hunted with dogs.

You may be lucky enough to spot a shy stoat, common here, but hard to find.

Expect wonderful inventions, an affection for the Victorians and a stuffed stoat called Malcolm.

Synonyms:

shorttail weasel, Mustela erminea, ermine,

Antonyms:

None