Mephitis macroura

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Mephitis macroura - of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United Stateshooded skunkpolecat, wood pussy, skunk - American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinaegenus Mephitis, Mephitis - in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae