strong-smelling
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Its website lists symptoms as feeling thirsty, having dark yellow, strong-smelling urine; urinating less often than usual; feeling dizzy or lightheaded; feeling tired; a dry mouth, lips and tongue.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2025
A strong-smelling gas, formaldehyde is used in making building materials and plastics and often as a component of disinfectants and preservatives.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2022
Magical handbooks from the time show that Greco-Egyptian magicians used fragrance extensively in their rituals, even scented inks, and doctors believed strong-smelling plant species to be more medically effective than others.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2021
Like other boys growing up in the 1960s, he collected and killed butterflies, stowing them in drawers treated with an insecticide, paradichlorobenzene, the strong-smelling substance used in old mothballs, which also repels mites and beetles.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
The last thing he wanted now was for Mama to colonize his kitchen or use Olanna’s favorite saucepan for her strong-smelling soup.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
