Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small southeast Asian shrub (Pogostemon cablin) in the mint family, having leaves that yield a fragrant oil used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- n. A perfume made from the oil of this plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An East Indian odoriferous plant, Pogostemon Patchouli, of the mint family. It grows 2 or 3 feet high, bears spikes of densely whorled small flowers, and ovate leaves 2 or 3 inches long. It yields a perfume long favorite in the East, and now common elsewhere. It gives their peculiar odor to India ink and India shawls. The dried leaves are much used in sachets, to scent clothing, etc. The essential oil in which the odor resides is distilled for toilet use. Also called
pucha pat . - n. The perfume itself.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several East Indian menthaceous plants which yield a highly fragrant oil.
- n. The oil or perfume made from these plants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.
- n. The heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes
- n. a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant
Etymologies
- From Tamil pachchai பச்சை (green), and ellai இலை (leaf). (Wiktionary)
- Tamil paccuḷi. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But ‘make love’ does call to mind middle-aged hippy men drenched in patchouli, so yeah: UCK.”
“Listed below are links to weblogs that reference "Dip me in patchouli and call me a sensitive new-age guy":”
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“Dip me in patchouli and call me a sensitive new-age guy”
“As a generation, perhaps we weren't the "greatest," but we certainly were the greatest surprise, when we returned from college drenched in patchouli oil, spouting Karl Marx, and wearing clown pants and braids in our beards.”
“a good friend of mine and I are in agreement that patchouli is disgusting.”
“That said, these days I'm an essential oils gal-namely patchouli and it is certainly long as in forever lasting!”
“For example, chamomile is often used for relaxation, as is patchouli, which is typically used for meditation.”
“It's the clean and modern kind of patchouli - like what you'd find in Midnight Poison, Black Orchid, etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘patchouli’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Aromata Aromatica
Fragrant things and terms that describe them. Generic names of botanical binomials aren't capitalized if the unconventional lower case form has a useful Wordnik definition. I'm primarily seeking te...
curry leaf, tuberose, orris, moss rose, smudge stick, lavender, frangipani, sweet acacia, sweet bay, tea rose, patchouli, linaloa and 162 more...
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250 Cherry-Picked Words
Juicy words for the intermediate and advanced speller
consomme, miniaceous, nankeen, smaragdine, stramineous, vitellary, allemande, beguine, bransle, charabanc, margaritaceous, chaconne and 238 more...
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Stink Different™
What-the-smell is that?
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Perfumery
perfume, perfumer, aromachologist, fougère, le nez, civet, perfumer's organ, Tapputi, Eau de Cologne, eau de toilette, eau de perfume, eaux and 92 more...
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Gesundheit
Words that sound like sneezes
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♥
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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I do not like them, Sam I Am
Words that, for various reasons, I wish we could do without.
copacetic, gamut, horehound, lewd, membrane, metrics, mucous, mucus, negligee, nostril, odious, odor and 143 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Evocative smells
They remind me of a particular time, place, or activity
cigar smoke, apples, tea roses, wild roses, lysol, shoe polish, linseed oil, school house, coal dust, mock orange, chlorine, violets and 116 more...
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 533 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Another day, a whole nother list
rump, spot on, flank, outflank, rank, bedeck, leafhopper, apocope, academic, set-to, point of no return, cloy and 210 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for patchouli.
AdamBerkowicz My wife enjoys this word. I do too. So, in conclusion, we both enjoy patchouli!!!! Nov 3, 2012
Tyanna Austin, TX, when "weird". :-) Jan 15, 2012
bilby Gesundheit. Nov 3, 2008