Usually means: Emits foul, noxious gases, odors.
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  1. mephitic: Merriam-Webster
  2. mephitic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mephitic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mephitic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mephitic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mephitic, mephitic: Wordnik
  7. mephitic: Wiktionary
  8. mephitic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mephitic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mephitic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. mephitic: Dictionary.com
  12. Mephitic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Mephitic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. mephitic: Rhymezone
  15. Mephitic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. mephitic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. mephitic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. mephitic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. mephitic: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. mephitic: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mephitic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. mephitic: Medical dictionary

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  1. mephitic: A Word A Day
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Definitions from Wiktionary (mephitic)

▸ adjective:  Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere.

Similar:
miasmic, malodorous, mephitical, foul-smelling, dampish, fetid, stinking, foulsmelling, frouzy, olid, more...

Types:
fetid, rank, stinking, malodorous, noisome, putrid, more...

Phrases:
mephitic air, more...

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Similar:
miasmic, malodorous, mephitical, foul-smelling, dampish, fetid, stinking, foulsmelling, frouzy, olid, more...

Types:
fetid, rank, stinking, malodorous, noisome, putrid, more...

Phrases:
mephitic air, more...



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