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Overview of noun mephitis

The noun mephitis has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. mephitis

(a poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth)

2. malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitis

(a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant)

3. Mephitis, genus Mephitis

(in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae) © 2001-2013, Demand Media, all rights reserved. The database is based on Word Net a lexical database for the English language. see disclaimer
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