MEPHITIS MACROURA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States

Synonyms:

hooded skunk; Mephitis macroura

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Mephitis macroura" 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 macroura" is a member of...):

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

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