All parts of the plant have a strong-scented odour, and a warm, bitter, astringent taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The floor of this litde garret was thick with dust and pollen, and the rose was a very strong-scented one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]

The floor of this little garret was thick with dust and pollen, and the rose was a very strong-scented one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]

Mohammad had been to the effect that he would not again partake of a species of strong-scented honey disliked by his wives.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference

The great majority of them, too, have the surface covered with glandular hairs secreting a strong-scented volatile oil, giving the peculiar odor to these plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

We there met with a new species of the rare and little-known genus, GEIJERA; forming a strong-scented shrub, about ten feet high, and having long, narrow, drooping leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference

For example, strong-scented perfumes can give some people headaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansan.com stories] Reference

But that's all nonsense, and besides I don't bring any strong-scented flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Young Girl's Diary] Reference

He had a garland on his head, woven of the plant of death, the strong-scented Apium or celery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Miniatures] Reference

Yet the name may have been used sometimes as a general name for any wild, strong-scented plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference

Bring me my blue dress, Julia; -- and go and get me some geranium leaves -- some strong-scented ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet, Volume I] Reference

Bring me my blue dress, Julia; – and go and get me some geranium leaves – some strong-scented ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Helmet] Reference

Has the brilliant, strong-scented plant no ulterior motive in thus attracting their attention at this particular time?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

The rapid fluctuations of the abdomen showed that it was eagerly drinking the strong-scented nectar collected by the Bee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference

The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

The air was heavy and stifling, full of warm damp; and strong-scented gusts of fresh, rain-laden perfumes blew across the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Life] Reference

The Saxon king, Edgar, imposed a tribute of wolves 'heads, and Athelstan ordered the payment of fines in hawks and strong-scented dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old English Sports] Reference

So, too, spinach and lettuce may be covered with blight, while the bitter spurges, the woolly-leaved arabis, and the strong-scented thyme close by are utterly untouched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

The piles of corn were often left in the field several days, and while loading them into the wagon we usually found field mice in them, -- big, blunt-nosed, strong-scented fellows that we were taught to kill just because they nibbled a few grains of corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Boyhood and Youth] Reference

= Habit. = -- 20-50 feet high and 1-2 feet in diameter at the ground, reaching in the southern states an altitude of 90 and a diameter of 4 feet; trunk straight, tapering slowly, throwing out nearly horizontal, slender branches, forming a narrow, conical head often of great elegance and lightness; foliage light brownish-green; strong-scented; spray flat in planes disposed at different angles; wood permanently aromatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference

"Never mind, she has plenty; strong-scented flowers of the south, a whole basketful, enough to keep a hive of bees or kill a man in his sleep, which you will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Generally sessile on terminal peduncles, single or in pairs, as large or larger than the fruit of the shagbark, or as small as that of the pignut, oblong-globose to globose: husk hard and thick, separating in 4 segments nearly to the base, strong-scented: nut globular, 4-ridged near the top, thick-shelled: kernel usually small, sweet, edible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference