pungent in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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When whole mustard seeds are wetted and crushed, an enzyme is activated that releases pungent sulphurous compounds; but they quickly evaporate.
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It is very sweet, but becomes both spicy and pungent.
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The pungent smell protects it by repelling many would-be feeders.
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His brilliant paradoxes, his pungent and often profane epigrams were received by graver persons as his real opinions and as evidence of atheism.
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The resulting powder or paste is mixed with water, or more often broth, and simmered until it is pungent and very thick.
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On the coastal dunes in front is missing, the sparzio pungent, the euphorbia sea, the calcatreppola, fennel thorny grass and sand.
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It is aromatic, and it tastes bitter, pungent and slightly sweet.
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The name comes from the pungent taste ("lyut" hot, pungent).
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The merchants began to call this wine oloroso meaning pungent.
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Unbound by usual restrictions of taste and literary convention, its proponents claim that transgressive fiction is capable of pungent social commentary.
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