"mustelline" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the Latin mūstellīnus, from mūstella, an alternative form of mūstēla; see musteline.",
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      "form": "more mustelline",
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      "form": "most mustelline",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "musteline"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Luther Crocker Snider, Earth History, The Century co., page 371",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1969, Otto Frederic Kampmeier, Evolution and Comparative Morphology of the Lymphatic System, page 497",
          "text": "The mesenteric lymph nodes in this mustelline species are several, and not amalgamated into a single large mass as seen in some carnivores.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Gavin Maxwell, Raven Seek Thy Brother, Penguin Books, page 15",
          "text": "The massiveness of the damage they had inflicted upon other humans – the hysterical, almost manic, sustained attacks that characterize the mustelline family when the killer instinct is somehow aroused, precluded any possibility of allowing them liberty; the most I could do was occasionally to take them for a walk – separately, for they hated each other – and to employ staff to look after them, for I could not always be at Camusfeàrna.",
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        {
          "ref": "ibidem, page 27",
          "text": "The mustelline access of emotion that may turn to such terrible violence was now all affection and desire for reassurance; he squirmed and writhed and put his fingers in my mouth and ears; he put his mouth to mine and sought the animal exchange of saliva."
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mʌˈstɛlaɪn/"
    }
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  "word": "mustelline"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1932, Luther Crocker Snider, Earth History, The Century co., page 371",
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          "ref": "1969, Otto Frederic Kampmeier, Evolution and Comparative Morphology of the Lymphatic System, page 497",
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        },
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          "text": "The massiveness of the damage they had inflicted upon other humans – the hysterical, almost manic, sustained attacks that characterize the mustelline family when the killer instinct is somehow aroused, precluded any possibility of allowing them liberty; the most I could do was occasionally to take them for a walk – separately, for they hated each other – and to employ staff to look after them, for I could not always be at Camusfeàrna.",
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        }
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  "word": "mustelline"
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