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. [1913 Webster] 2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. [1913 Webster] Mephitic air (Chem.), carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. [1913 Webster]