Mephitis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An offensive smell; a stench.
  • n. A poisonous or foul-smelling gas emitted from the earth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth
  • n. A distinctive odour that is very unpleasant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
  • n. A genus of mammals, including the skunks.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A pestilential exhalation, especially from the earth; any noxious or ill-smelling emanation, as from putrid or filthy substances; a noisome or poisonous stench.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of skunks, typical of the subfamily Mephitinæ.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
  • n. a poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth
  • n. in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gas    mammal genus   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    smell    unpleasant    malodour    stench    reek