What's the difference between abelmosk and musky?

Abelmosk


Definition:

  • (n.) An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.

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Musky


Definition:

  • (a.) Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
  • (2) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
  • (3) Axillary 5 alpha-androstenone values were generally consistent with the 'musky' or 'strong' smells of male axillary extracts, compared with the 'sweet' smell of those from female subjects.
  • (4) However, a musky fug reminiscent of boiled onions and violets lingering in the side passage, and the twisted, taper-ended faeces deposited on the path, left me in no doubt as to the thief’s identity – a fox.
  • (5) And, of course, in 1972 Edmund Muskie, the seemingly inevitable Democratic frontrunner, melted down in part because of a rumor he was prejudiced against French Canadians .
  • (6) Detection thresholds for a representative from each of seven odorant classes (putrid, pepperminty, ethereal, camphoraceous, pungent, musky, floral) were determined by double-blind smell testing of seven normal males, six normal females, 6 patients with uncomplicated congenital anosmia and 13 patients with the syndrome of congenital anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (the Kallmann syndrome, olfactogenital dysplasia).
  • (7) I have fed lots of people their first oysters over the years, and turned them on to the sweet musky taste of urchins, and had my share of disappointments, too.
  • (8) In another experiment, he eats a woodchuck, enjoying it, "notwithstanding its musky flavour", though he doubts it will become an item for the village butcher.
  • (9) The Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine reports that the project showed an 11.1% increase in immunization rates in those practices over 26 months.
  • (10) Examples include crayfish, from the French écrevisse (not a fish but a kind of lobster); sparrow grass as a variant for asparagus in some English dialects; muskrat (conveniently musky, and a rodent, but named because of the Algonquin word muscascus meaning red); and female, which isn't a derivative of male at all, but comes from old French femelle meaning woman.

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