noun. An offensive smell; a stench.

noun. A poisonous or foul-smelling gas emitted from the earth.

noun. A pestilential exhalation, especially from the earth; any noxious or ill-smelling emanation, as from putrid or filthy substances; a noisome or poisonous stench.

noun. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of skunks, typical of the subfamily Mephitinæ.

noun. Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.

noun. A genus of mammals, including the skunks.

noun. A poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth

noun. A distinctive odour that is very unpleasant.

noun. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant

noun. a poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth

noun. in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae

"Few, on either side of the political spectrum, come well out of the affair and over it all hangs the olid mephitis of abject appeasement."

gas  mammal genus  

malodour  reek  smell  stench  unpleasant