skunk : Idioms & Phrases

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badger skunk

  • noun large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico
    Conepatus leuconotus; hog-nosed skunk; hognosed skunk; badger skunk.
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hog-nosed skunk

  • noun large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico
    Conepatus leuconotus; hog-nosed skunk; hognosed skunk; badger skunk.
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hognosed skunk

  • noun large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico
    Conepatus leuconotus; hog-nosed skunk; hognosed skunk; badger skunk.
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hooded skunk

  • noun of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States
    Mephitis macroura.
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little spotted skunk

  • noun small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexico
    Spilogale putorius; little spotted skunk.
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rooter skunk

  • noun large naked-muzzled skunk with white back and tail; of southwestern North America and Mexico
    Conepatus leuconotus; hog-nosed skunk; hognosed skunk; badger skunk.
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skunk bear

  • noun stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal
    wolverine; carcajou; Gulo luscus.
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Skunk bird, Skunk blackbird

  • (Zoöl.), the bobolink; so called because the male, in the breeding season, is black and white, like a skunk.
Webster 1913

Skunk cabbage

  • noun deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
    foetid pothos; polecat weed; Symplocarpus foetidus.
  • noun clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
    Lysichiton americanum.
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  • (Bot.), an American aroid herb (Symplocarpus f&oe;tidus>) having a reddish hornlike spathe in earliest spring, followed by a cluster of large cabbagelike leaves. It exhales a disagreeable odor. Also called swamp cabbage.
Webster 1913

Skunk porpoise

  • . (Zoöl.) See under Porpoise.
Webster 1913

skunk-weed

  • noun tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell
    Polemonium viscosum; skunkweed.
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spotted skunk

  • noun small skunk with a marbled black and white coat; of United States and Mexico
    Spilogale putorius; little spotted skunk.
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striped skunk

  • noun most common and widespread North American skunk
    Mephitis mephitis.
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