Antonyms for mephitis:
noun effluvium
noun strong odor
noun foul odor
Examples of uses:
"mephitis," I gasped, and instantly put several feet more between us.
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Title: Little Brothers of the Air, author: Olive Thorne Miller, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27277/27277-h/27277-h.htm
Visher (1914:91), however, reported that Spilogale was much commoner than mephitis in the early part of the century.
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Title: Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota, author: Kenneth W. Andersen, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33659/33659-h/33659-h.htm
The small mandibular ramus of a musteline referred by Dr. Roth to mephitis suffocans, does not pertain to this genus and species.
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Title: Through the Heart of Patagonia, author: H. Hesketh Prichard, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43366/43366-h/43366-h.htm
Soon a woman ka-wate (mephitis) came along with a vase and a gourd for water.
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Title: Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest, author: Katharine Berry Judson, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2503/2503-h/2503-h.htm
mephitis is, however, purely American wherever he comes from.
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Title: Belford's Magazine, Vol II, No. 10, March 1889, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41823/41823-h/41823-h.htm
mephitis, me-fī′tis, n. a poisonous exhalation from the ground or from decaying substances—also Mephī′tism.
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Title: Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M), author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38538/38538-h/38538-h.htm
Because the odor is quite like mephitis it is considered a so-called anti-spasmodic.
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Title: New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38757/38757-h/38757-h.htm
Tortoises were very common, and the mephitis left frequent traces of his existence.
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Title: In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria, author: Henry Morton Stanley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43654/43654-h/43654-h.htm
The biggest one of the mephitis family lives in Texas, and that empire is not disposed to boast itself withal on that account.
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Title: Belford's Magazine, Vol II, No. 10, March 1889, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41823/41823-h/41823-h.htm
Yet mephitis has the air of seeming rather to like, than to seek to avoid, mankind.
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Title: Belford's Magazine, Vol II, No. 10, March 1889, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41823/41823-h/41823-h.htm
