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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened;
[syn: polecat, fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fitch \Fitch\ (?; 224), n.; pl. Fitches. [See Vetch.] 1. (Bot.) A vetch. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. pl. (Bot.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fitch \Fitch\, n. [Contr. of fitched.] (Zool.) The European polecat; also, its fur. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fitch n 1: dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened [syn: polecat, fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius]