taxidea taxus

English Thesaurus

1. a variety of badger native to America (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	badger,
definition	:	sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus taxidea, taxidea,
definition	:	in some classifications considered a genus of subfamily Melinae (noun.animal)