MEPHITIS MEPHITIS

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Meaning:

Most common and widespread North American skunk

Synonyms:

Mephitis mephitis; striped skunk

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Mephitis mephitis" is a kind of...):

polecat; skunk; wood pussy (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae)

Holonyms ("Mephitis mephitis" is a member of...):

genus Mephitis; Mephitis (in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae)

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