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Množina: skunks

ETYM Contr. from the Abenaki (American Indian) seganku.
North American mammal of the weasel family. The common skunk Mephitis mephitis has a long, arched body, short legs, a bushy tail, and black fur with white streaks on the back. In self-defense, it discharges a foul-smelling fluid.
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae; SYN. polecat, wood pussy.

Množina: Skunks

River 264 miles (425 kilometers) se Iowa flowing se into Mississippi River

ETYM Colloq. u. s.
(Games) To defeat (an opponent) so that he fails to gain a point.

Množina: skunk cabbages

1. Clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe; SYN. Lysichiton americanum.
2. Deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe; SYN. polecat weed, foetid pothos, Symplocarpus foetidus.
Either of two disagreeably smelling North American plants of the arum family Araceae: Symplocarpus foetidus, of the E, growing in wet soils and having large, cabbagelike leaves and a fleshy blunt spike of tiny flowers in a purple, hooded sheath; or Lysichiton americanum of the W, having similar appearance except that the sheath enclosing a more elongated flower spike is yellow.

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Množina: skunkbrushes

Squawbush

Singular of skunks is skunk.

Množina: skunkweeds

Tall sticky-leaved herb of the Rocky Mountains having an offensive smell; SYN. Polemonium viscosum.

Having a rancid smell or taste suggestive of a skunk