Complete Definition of "mephitic"

English

Adjective
en-adj

  1. foul-smelling
  2. poisonous

Quotations
1996, w:Janette Turner Hospital|Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
:More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself.

Derived terms
mephitic air

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