Synonym: acid, biting, bitter, sharp, spicy, stinging, tangy. Similar words: tangential, plunge, engender, in general, ingenuous, ingenuity, punishment, agent. Meaning: ['pʌdʒənt] adj. 1. strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes" 2. capable of wounding.
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(61) They gave off a pungent, horsey smell, as if freshly cut.
(62) As his face disappears behind a pungent blue cloud he relaxes into a deep wreathed smile of satisfaction.
(63) The air is pungent with the smell of garlic fresh from the ground.
(64) He reached inside, pushing his hand through the layers of packing and into something dark and pungent.
(65) The very best oil to use in a wok is sesame oil which is pungent and flavoursome.
(66) Warning: Eaten in sufficient amounts, this product ensures bad breath, probable indigestion and pungent, loose stools.
(67) Old oak has an honest, pungent, lusty smell as you would expect.
(68) They couldn't detect the smell of cocaine through the more pungent odour of coffee.
(69) This is an acrid and pungent substance.
(70) West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds.
(71) HF has a pungent odor. It is extremely corrosive.
(72) Ammonia has a pungent,[http://sentencedict.com/pungent.html] penetrating odor.
(73) This figure of speech is plain and pungent.
(74) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots.
(75) Water flea has pungent fishy taste.
(76) Cardamom has an intense, pungent, sweet flavor.
(77) the pungent smell of burning rubber.
(78) It was the season for stocking the Enlows' silo with winter feed, and I had a merry time in its pungent depths, stamping down the ensilage that pelted me from high above.
(79) The main effective component in garlic is garlicin with strong pungent odor, but the garlicin in fresh garlic exists in stable and non-odor garlic amino acid.
(80) The Times-Picayune reports that the city has been overwhelmed by a "pungent smell" and that, though they can't confirm the odor's source, officials believe the spill is the most likely culprit.
(81) "They included skatole, a component of feces; trimethylamine, one of the essences of rotting fish; and several of the more pungent fatty acids that contribute to rancid human body odor, " Ed says.
(82) In late spring and throughout summer and fall, your flowers are the envy of the neighborhood, your romaine lettuce is delightfully crispy, and your tomatoes promise a pungent spaghetti sauce.
(83) Eurasian mustard cultivated for its pungent seeds ; a source of table mustard and mustard oil.
(84) Description: The chili pepper, a hotly pungent variety of Capsicum was first cultivated by the people of Central and South America in around 3000BC.
(85) Some say Britain's pungent blue-veined Stilton cheese smells of old socks.
(86) Sichuan cuisine is noted for its tingling,(sentencedict.com) pungent and spicy flavor.
(87) Nutritional Effects: the main ingredients of pungent taste in ginger include zingerone, ginger alcohol and ginger hydroxybenzene which are volatile to some extend.
(88) Different kinds of mustard give different mustard oils: black mustard gives a highly pungent mustard oil due to its content of sinigrin.
(89) A plant ( Alpinia officinarum ) of eastern Asia, having pungent, aromatic roots used medicinally and as seasoning.
(90) Like an onion, each is obvious in shape and presentation, but as you peel back the layers, they become more pungent , and their logical construction is revealed.
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