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Image: American badger (Taxidea taxus).
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What does Taxidea mean? What are American badgers called in Italian, Norwegian or Lakota? These questions and more are answered here.
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The American badger is also referred to as the North American badger or (more rarely) the New World badger. It is also known as the silver badger [ b004 ], presumably because of the silvery grey fur of some specimens.
Taxidea is a combination of the New Latin word for badger, taxus , and the Greek word for appearance, idea [ w016 ].
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