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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Mephitic (0.00881 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Mephitic.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: mephitic
mephitic
adj : of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution [syn:
miasmic]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Mephitic
Mephitic
\Me*phit"ic\, Mephitical
\Me*phit"ic*al\, a. [L.
mephiticus, fr. mephitis mephitis: cf. F. m['e]phitique.]
1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic
exhalations; mephitic regions.
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2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
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Mephitic air (Chem.), carbon dioxide; -- so called because
of its deadly suffocating power. See
Carbonic acid,
under
Carbonic.
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