mephitis
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I know that a skunk's Latin name is Mephitis mephitis, and that skunks should not be confused with polecats.
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Azote is one of the most abundant elements; combined with caloric it forms azotic gas, or mephitis, which composes nearly two thirds of the atmosphere.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
The odor of corruption, the saeva mephitis, has by this time exhaled.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
Come along with me, and get the mephitis blown out of you.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
Instantly a cone of black mephitis shot forth, a loathsome, bituminous stream of putrefaction that reeked of the grave and the cesspool, of the utmost reaches of decay before the dust accepts the disintegrated atoms.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 by Harry Bates
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