what does meles meles mean?

**dingle_666** · 9th October 2002

i havent a clue, i heard someone say it to me and it is latin for something

**macdaddy** · 9th October 2002

its a badger

**tef89** · 9th October 2002

Is it a German Badger Maccy ?

**dingle_666** · 9th October 2002

cheers guys thats helped

**Snak3** · 9th October 2002

the noun meles does mean 'badger' - the second 'meles' would probably be added as some sort of animal classification or to show that it was 3rd declension by having the genitive 'meles'.

**macdaddy** · 9th October 2002

or too be more precise a Eurasian Badger

**tbops** · 9th October 2002

could also mean smash brothers melee if your freind has a speach impediment.

**sbaxter9** · 9th October 2002

he wasnt a hungry spaniard was he

**sbaxter9** · 9th October 2002

joking apart
Meles meles
The Latin name for a badger is Meles meles (in the Mustelidae family - all members of a group of animals called the Carnivora). Although this would suggest that the badger is a carnivore, it is an omnivore (meaning that it eats both meat and plants).

Species are given Latin names so that experts can put different animal species into related groups.

hope that helps