noun (n)

• dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened(noun.animal)

  Synonym:
  fitch, foulmart, mustela putorius, polecat
  

  source: wordnet30
• The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat.(noun)

  source: webster1913