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- adj. having a strong odor
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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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“The floor of this litde garret was thick with dust and pollen, and the rose was a very strong-scented one.”
“The floor of this little garret was thick with dust and pollen, and the rose was a very strong-scented one.”
“All parts of the plant have a strong-scented odour, and a warm, bitter, astringent taste.”
“From the _Lactuca virosa_, or strong-scented wild Lettuce, a medicinal tincture (H.) is prepared, using the whole plant.”
“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”
“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
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