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Rankness

noun
1.
The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth.  Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, richness.  "Weeds lovely in their rankness"
2.
The attribute of having a strong offensive smell.  Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, stinkiness.





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"Rankness" Quotes from Famous Books



... more proper for our Northern Rustics, especially living in Uliginous and moist places, or such as use the Sea: Whilst we absolutely forbid it entrance into our Salleting, by reason of its intolerable Rankness, and which made it so detested of old; that the eating of it was (as we read) part of the Punishment for such as had committed the horrid'st Crimes. To be sure, 'tis not for Ladies Palats, nor those ...
— Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets • John Evelyn
... grinning at the sky from amid the tattered fragments of a cap of liberty. Bones lay thick around the shattered vehicles; a trail of skeletons dotted the descending bank, and stretched far into a neighbouring field; and from amid the green rankness that shot up around them, I could see soiled and tattered patches of the British scarlet. A little farther on there was another wide gap in the rails. I marked beside the ruins of a neighbouring hovel a huge pile of rusty bars, ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller


Words linked to "Rankness" :   body odour, olfactory property, body odor, B.O., odor, fecundity, odour, rank, smell, aroma, scent, fruitfulness


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