(Canada, US) Any of several leafy, foul-smelling plants, especially Symplocarpus foetidus, a low-growing plant native to the wetlands of eastern North America, but also denoting Lysichiton americanus and Lysichiton camtschatcense.

Alternative spelling of skunkworks

(simile, colloquial) Highly inebriated.

plural of skunk cabbage

javelina

A carnivore of the species Mephitis mephitis, known for the persistent pungent aroma of the scent it sprays when threatened.

Any animal of the genus Spilogale, native to North and Central America.

plural of spotted skunk

A skunk native to Mexico and the southwestern US, Mephites macroura

plural of hooded skunk