Definitions
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- adjective having a strong odor
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Examples
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And therein stood censers of aloes-wood and ambergris and strong-scented musk, and at the upper end was a couch bespread with cloth of gold on which he seated himself, marvelling at the magnificence he saw and knowing not what was written for him in the Secret Purpose.
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In association with it we always observe a curious plant, named ngotuane, which bears such a profusion of fine yellow strong-scented flowers as quite to perfume the air.
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We there met with a new species of the rare and little-known genus, GEIJERA; forming a strong-scented shrub, about ten feet high, and having long, narrow, drooping leaves.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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They met a troop of long-haired, strong-scented Sansis with baskets of lizards and other unclean food on their backs, their lean dogs sniffing at their heels.
Kim 2003
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The floor of this litde garret was thick with dust and pollen, and the rose was a very strong-scented one.
Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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The floor of this little garret was thick with dust and pollen, and the rose was a very strong-scented one.
Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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From the _Lactuca virosa_, or strong-scented wild Lettuce, a medicinal tincture (H.) is prepared, using the whole plant.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Our garden Lettuce is a cultivated variety of the wild, or strong-scented Lettuce (_Lactuca virosa_), which grows, with prickly leaves, on banks and waysides in chalky districts throughout
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The great majority of them, too, have the surface covered with glandular hairs secreting a strong-scented volatile oil, giving the peculiar odor to these plants.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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All parts of the plant have a strong-scented odour, and a warm, bitter, astringent taste.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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