Fragrance



GRE TOEFL

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 香料
• ［英］ n. 香料 ( pleasant or sweet smell)
• ［例］ Lavender has a delicate fragrance.

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Date: 1667
• 1.
  • a. a sweet or delicate odor (as of fresh flowers, pine trees, or perfume)
  • b. something (as a perfume) compounded to give off a sweet or pleasant odor
• 2. the quality or state of having a sweet odor
• Synonyms:
  • fragrance, perfume, scent, redolence mean a sweet or pleasant odor. fragrance suggests the odors of flowers or other growing things <the fragrance of pine>. perfume may suggest a stronger or heavier odor<the perfume of lilacs>. scent is very close to perfume but of wider application because more neutral in connotation<scent-free soaps>. redolence implies a mixture of fragrant or pungent odors<the redolence of a forest after a rain>.

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