Usage of "pungency" | TermGallery

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A strong odor or taste property.

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Pungency is the condition of having a strong, sharp smell or flavor that is often so strong that it is unpleasant.

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Uso de pungency en inglés

The garlands of dried flowers hung limp; their musky pungency surprised Kiska. 
 Night of Knives 

There was a rare pungency in it certainly, a quality almost Southern. 
 The Beautiful and Damned 

Roasting tames the garlic's pungency, resulting in a paste that's actually sweet. 
 The new atkins for a new you: the ultimate diet for shedding wei... 

Also a sharp pyroligneous-acid pungency in the air that stings one's eyes. 
 The Professor at the Breakfast-Table 

Bitterness and pungency are distinct and balanced, with a sweet almond finish. 
 The South African 

That rank piece of pungency had been planted, planted to watch me. 
 The Silver Pigs 

It has a similar pungency, but little else in common with true wasabi. 
 On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen 

The pungency awakens that mature palate of yours, am I right? 
 French pressed 

The resins produced a vile pungency that permeated the throne chamber. 
 Mech 

Sympathetic activity activated by stress may affect taste and the sensation of pungency. 
 Pubmed 

The carbonation and pungency of beer give it a trigeminal kick. 
 Cooking for geeks: real science, great hacks, and good food 

The principle on which its pungency depends, is soluble in water and in alcohol. 
 A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons / Exhi... 

The comments of the Ring increased in point and pungency. 
 Love Among the Chickens 

They are used chiefly in confectionery, and have the flavor and pungency of cassia. 
 The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in... 

Hilda picked it up, and drew in the crude, warm pungency of its smell. 
 The Path of a Star 

But the pungency of this antithesis comes from an imperfect realization of its meaning. 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin... 