mephitis macroura

English Thesaurus

1. of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	polecat, skunk, wood pussy,
definition	:	American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus mephitis, mephitis,
definition	:	in some classifications: type genus of the subfamily Mephitinae (noun.animal)