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hooded skunk

DEFINITIONS OF: hooded skunk

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n of Mexico and southernmost parts of southwestern United States

Synonyms:
Mephitis macroura
Type of:
polecat, skunk, wood pussy
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
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