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Mephitis   Listen
noun
Mephitis  n.  
1.
Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
2.
(Zool.) A genus of mammals, including the skunks.





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"Mephitis" Quotes from Famous Books



... like pills. When they were in his stomach, every one undid his spring, and came out of their cabins. The first whereof was he that carried the lantern, and so they fell more than half a league into a most horrible gulf, more stinking and infectious than ever was Mephitis, or the marshes of the Camerina, or the abominably unsavoury lake of Sorbona, whereof Strabo maketh mention. And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach, heart, and wine-pot, which is called the noddle, they had been ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


Words linked to "Mephitis" :   Mustelidae, stink, mephitic, smell, foetor, stench, odour, malodour, mammal genus, gas, olfactory perception, reek, fetor


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