| NOUN | substance | mephitis | a poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth |
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| cognition | mephitis, malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor | a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | |
| animal | Mephitis, genus Mephitis | in some classifications |
| Meaning | A poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth. | |
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| Broader | gas | A fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely |
| Adjectives | mephitic | of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution |
| Meaning | A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant. | |
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| Synonyms | malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor | |
| Narrower | niff, pong | An unpleasant smell |
| Broader | smell, odor, odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception | The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form |
| Spanish | fetidez, fetor, foetor, hediondez, hedor, pebete, pestazo, peste, pestilencia, tufo | |
| Catalan | ferum, foetor, fortor, mala olor, pesta, pestilència, pudor | |
| Adjectives | mephitic | of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution |
| Meaning | In some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae. | |
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| Synonym | genus Mephitis | |
| Member of | Mustelidae, family Mustelidae | Weasels |
| Members | hooded skunk, Mephitis macroura | Of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States |
| striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis | Most common and widespread North American skunk | |
| Broader | mammal genus | A genus of mammals |
| Spanish | genus mephitis, mephitis, mofeta | |
| Catalan | genus mephitis, mephitis | |
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