SKUNK, noun In America, the popular name of a fetid animal of the weasel kind; the Viverra Mephitis of Linne. SKUNK'-CABBAGE, SKUNK'-WEED, noun A plant vulgarly so called, the Tetodes fatidus, so named from its smell.
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