portuguès
odor The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth.
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Hemp flourishes even to rankness, so that we need not want cordage.
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Ideally, of course, weeds should never reach this state of sportive rankness.
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And in the heat everything smells of ferment and rot and rankness.
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The vegetation was rich almost to rankness; the well-wooded distances were heavily grey.
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This will take away all the rankness and slimyness of them.
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Not but what there was more or less rankness in the crowd even then.
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But the other coarseness is only the overgrowth of excellence,-therankness of lusty life.
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And cornfield peas, of just the right rankness, cooked with just the right dryness.
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Their flesh has no rankness, nor is inferiour in flavour to our common venison.
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Its flesh is white and delicate, and has the usual taste, without any rankness.
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All sorts of ugly weeds grow most luxuriantly out of the grave in poisonous rankness.
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This it does in some instances by smothering them, through the rankness of the growth.
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It may happen that we pull up flowers with weeds; but better this than rankness.
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Oats and mustard grow spontaneously, with such rankness as to be considered nuisances upon the soil.
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Entire valleys, like Martair, of inexhaustible fertility are abandoned to all the rankness of untamed vegetation.
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They were almost too luxuriant, approaching to rankness.