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Definition
strong smelling or tasting
or much more rarely: anything sharp, painful, or penetrating — physically or emotionally
or much more rarely: anything sharp, painful, or penetrating — physically or emotionally
- Many great trees grew there, planted long ago, falling into untended age amid a riot of careless descendants; and groves and thickets there were of tamarisk and pungent terebinth, of olive and of bay; and there were junipers and myrtles; and thymes that grew in bushes, or with their woody creeping stems mantled in deep tapestries the hidden stones; sages of many kinds putting forth blue flowers, or red, or pale green; and marjorams and new-sprouting parsleys, and many herbs of forms...4.4 — Book 4 Chapter 4 — Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit (18% in)
There are no more uses of "pungent" in The Two Towers.
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