Mamífero carnívoro de unos cinco centímetros de largo y pelaje bicolor (negro con rayas blancas) cuyo rasgo característico es el fuerte y fétido olor que segregan sus glándulas anales.
köken: Borrowed from English skunks, plural of skunk, from an unattested Southern New England Algonquian word, cognate with Abenaki segôgw, from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek-.
köken: Possibly from Old Norse skukka (“wrinkle”).
Etimoloji
From Latin mefitis ("foul-smelling, toxic gases"). In Roman (and pre-Roman, Samnite) mythology, Mefitis was the goddess of the foul-smelling gases from the earth.