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graveolent
/ 藞伞谤忙惫瑟蓹濒蓹苍迟 /
adjective
- (of plants) having a strong fetid smell
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of graveolent1
Example Sentences
Graveolent, grav鈥材-o-lent, adj. giving forth an offensive smell.鈥攏.
This graveolent evil is the pest of soiled newspapers鈥攋ournals of ill savour鈥攏ot imparted by any fetid sort of printers' ink, but by vile advertisements, whereat the physical nostrils, indeed, are not offended: but the moral nose is in great indignation.
Now I was getting tired, and bored with the whole business, and stifled with the close atmosphere鈥攍aden with every graveolent horror; besides, I had not escaped from London "chaff" and Parisian persiflage, to be mocked by a wild Virginian.
Amongst the minor pests are the nkran, or 'driver,' the ahoho, a highly-savoured red ant, and the hahinni, a large black formica terribly graveolent; flies like the tzetze, centipedes, scorpions, and venomous spiders, which make men 'writhe like cut worms.'
The stratum of the earth is black and pitchy, and the springs beneath it are of a dark and graveolent water.
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