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Definition of Conepate
1. n. The skunk.
Definition of Conepate
1. a skunk [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conepate
Literary usage of Conepate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1903)
"Buffon, in 1765, described the same animal under the name of '•le conepate,''
attributing to it five white stripes. His plate is evidently a copy of ..."
2. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"The conepate resembles the skink in all tilings except in size, being smaller,
aud in the disposition of its colours, which are more exact, ..."
3. Histoire naturelle by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1799)
"... du même aul<-ur pourroit bien «tre le conepate , qui dot- e trouver à la nouvelle
... conepate ..."