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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mephitic /mɪˈfɪtɪk/

▶adjective literary (especially of a gas or vapour) foul-smelling.

– origin C17: from late L. mephiticus, from mephitis ‘noxious exhalation’.

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