Mephitis mephitis

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Mephitis mephitis - most common and widespread North American skunkstriped 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