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.

From SAT Tests

Mephitis mephitis estor Merriam Striped Skunk D. Watson advises me that striped skunks are fairly common around the entrance to the Park, along the foot of the Mesa, and along the Mancos River.

From Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Anderson, Sydney

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 Bates, Harry

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 Lavoisier, Antoine

The odor of corruption, the saeva mephitis, has by this time exhaled.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas