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STRIPED SKUNK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Most common and widespread North American skunk
Synonyms:
Mephitis mephitis; striped skunk
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("striped skunk" is a kind of...):
polecat; skunk; wood pussy (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae)
Holonyms ("striped skunk" is a member of...):
genus Mephitis; Mephitis (in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae)
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