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• odor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Pleasant smell Nouns 1. odor, odorousness, smell, scent, effluvium; emanation, exhalation; fume, essence, trail, redolence; pungency; fragrance, aroma, perfume, bouquet, ambrosia, ester; sense of smell,… …   English dictionary for students

• aromatic — 1. Having an agreeable, somewhat pungent, spicy odor. 2. One of a group of vegetable drugs having a fragrant odor and slightly stimulant properties. 3. See a. compound. [G. aromatikos, fr. aroma, spice, sweet herb] * * * ar·o·mat·ic .ar ə mat ik… …   Medical dictionary

• smell — [smel] vt. smelled or [Chiefly Brit.] Brit. smelt, smelling [ME smellen < OE * smyllan < IE base * smel , to burn slowly > SMOLDER: basic sense “to give off smoke”] 1. to be or become aware of by means of the nose and the olfactory… …   English World dictionary

• elephant tree — noun small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers • Syn: ↑Bursera microphylla • Hypernyms: ↑incense tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Bursera, ↑genus Bursera * * * …   Useful english dictionary

• aroma — [ə rō′mə] n. [L < Gr arōma, sweet spice] 1. a pleasant, often spicy odor; fragrance, as of a plant, a wine, cooking, etc. 2. any smell or odor 3. a characteristic quality or atmosphere [a city with the aroma of Paris] SYN. SMELL …   English World dictionary

• Agrimonia eupatoria — Common agrimony Agrimonia eupatoria Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae …   Wikipedia

• tiglicacid — tig·lic acid (tĭgʹlĭk) n. A thick, syrupy poisonous liquid, C5H8O2, derived from croton oil, having a spicy odor and used in making perfumes and flavoring agents.   [From New Latin (Croton) tiglium, croton species name, perhaps from Greek tīlos,… …   Universalium

• spicebush — /spuys boosh /, n. 1. Also called spice wood. a yellow flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor. 2. a North American shrub, Calycanthus occidentalis, having oblong leaves and… …   Universalium

• tiglic acid — An unsaturated fatty acid present in glycerides in croton oil. * * * tig·lic acid .tig lik n a vesicant crystalline unsaturated acid C5H8O2 with a spicy odor that is the stable stereoisomer of angelic acid and occurs in the form of esters esp. in …   Medical dictionary

• Chavibetol — IUPAC name 2 Methoxy 5 (prop 2 en 1 yl)phenol …   Wikipedia

• Bursera microphylla — noun small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers • Syn: ↑elephant tree • Hypernyms: ↑incense tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Bursera, ↑genus Bursera …   Useful english dictionary