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Pekan

noun
1.
Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.  Synonyms: black cat, fisher, fisher cat, Martes pennanti.






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"Pekan" Quotes from Famous Books



... escape the keen ears of Old Mother Nature. "Are you sure about that?" she demanded. "Now there's Pekan the Fisher-" ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... The Pekan is a larger species, belonging to North America, and semi-aquatic in its habits; while the Vison, or Mink, is a large black weasel that inhabits the borders of rivers in Canada and the United States, where it preys upon fish ...
— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid

... classed among the martens, and is principally to be found in Canada and the Northern United States, where it is known as the black cat, or woodshock. In our natural histories it is described under the name of the pekan. ...
— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson

... is classed among the martens, and is principally to be found in Canada and the Northern United States, where it is known as the black cat, or woodshock. In our natural histories it is described under the name of the pekan. ...
— Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making • William Hamilton Gibson



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