stingk

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• stink — /stingk/, v., stank or, often, stunk; stunk; stinking; n. v.i. 1. to emit a strong offensive smell. 2. to be offensive to honesty or propriety; to be in extremely bad repute or disfavor. 3. Informal. to be disgustingly inferior: That book stinks …   Universalium

• stinkhorn — /stingk hawrn /, n. any of various rank smelling, brown capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, esp. P. impudicus. [1715 25; STINK + HORN] * * * ▪ fungus order  any fungus of the order Phallales (phylum Basidiomycota, kingdom Fungi), typified by a …   Universalium

• stinkpot — /stingk pot /, n. 1. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare. 2. Informal. a stinker; meany. 3. a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and… …   Universalium

• stinkweed — /stingk weed /, n. 1. any of various rank smelling plants, as the jimson weed. 2. See tree of heaven. [1745 55, Amer.; STINK + WEED1] * * * …   Universalium

• stinkwood — /stingk wood /, n. 1. any of several trees yielding fetid wood. 2. the wood of any of these trees. [1725 35; STINK + WOOD1] * * * …   Universalium

• instinctive — instinctively, instinctually, adv. /in stingk tiv/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of instinct. 2. prompted by or resulting from or as if from instinct; natural; unlearned: an instinctive will to survive. Also, instinctual /in stingk …   Universalium

• instinctual — in·stinc·tu·al (ĭn stĭngkʹcho͞o əl) adj. Of, relating to, or derived from instinct. See Synonyms at instinctive.   in·stincʹtu·al·ly adv. * * * …   Universalium

• stinkball — stink·ball (stĭngkʹbôl ) n. See stinkpot. * * * …   Universalium

• stinkbug — stink·bug (stĭngkʹbŭg ) n. Any of numerous hemipterous insects of the family Pentatomidae, having a broad, flattened body and emitting a foul odor. * * * ▪ insect family  any of about 5,000 species of insects in the true bug order, Heteroptera,… …   Universalium

• stinkstone — [stiŋk′stōn΄] n. any stone, as some limestones, which gives off a foul smell when rubbed or struck, as from decayed organic matter contained in it * * * stink stone also stink·stone (stĭngkʹstōn ) n. A variety of limestone that emits a… …   Universalium

• contradistinction — contradistinctive, adj. contradistinctively, adv. /kon treuh di stingk sheuhn/, n. distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans. [1640 50; CONTRA 1 + DISTINCTION] * * * …   Universalium