Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mephitis_mephitis

1 sense of mephitis mephitis

Sense 1
striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis -- (most common and widespread North American skunk)
       => skunk, polecat, wood pussy -- (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae)