What's the difference between fragrant and pungent?

Fragrant


Definition:

  • (a.) Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
  • (2) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
  • (3) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
  • (4) Photograph: Pasona Group At the Tokyo headquarters of the Pasona Group , a staffing company, tomatoes dangle from the ceiling, herbs grow fragrantly in meeting rooms and a rice paddy is the lobby centerpiece.
  • (5) He appeared to be saying that everyone who worked for HBOS was decent, honest and fragrant.
  • (6) The ASP drink is not only effective but also fragrant, tasty, refreshing and thirst quenching, and it appears to have no side effects.
  • (7) Intranasal injections of a fragrant solution of 2-methyl-2-thiazoline elicited significant heart rate decelerations in late pregnancy fetal sheep, while the injection of a control fluid (isotonic saline) had no effect.
  • (8) "So you are the fragrant Mrs Copperfield's incumbrance," he said to me.
  • (9) Toast the coriander, cumin and fennel seeds in a dry frying pan until fragrant.
  • (10) The broth is glorious: fragrant but subtle, rich but not oily, and the perfect balance between spicy, sour and sweet.
  • (11) Satire can provide a fragrant drop of vanilla essence to the custard pie of protest.
  • (12) After that, let’s start to seriously clean up periods, and I don’t mean fragrantly.
  • (13) Add the chilli bean paste and stir-fry for a minute or so until the oil is red and fragrant.
  • (14) Serves 4 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tsp crushed garlic 4 tomatoes, quartered 1 tsp gia vi (or a mix of 2 parts sugar, 1 part black pepper, 1 part salt and 1 part garlic powder) 1.5 litres water 3 rhubarb stalks, cut into 3cm chunks 2 tbsp fish sauce 50g okra, halved, deseeded and cut into 1cm rounds ½ pineapple, cut into 2cm chunks 1 tsp sugar 1 spring onion, chopped 1 tbsp chopped coriander 1 In a saucepan, heat the oil and stir in the garlic, cooking until fragrant.
  • (15) Surrounded by sea and hills, rowan trees, hawthorn and holly, it had a fragrant compost loo-with-a-view.
  • (16) 3.20am BST Heat 85-87 Spurs, 6:43 remaining in the 4th quarter Parker crumples to the floor on what's a clear flagrant foul on Mario Chalmers, a deliberate dirty elbowing, upheld as fragrant 1 by Danny Crawford, but the Spurs might be out their best player here.
  • (17) 2 Add the ginger, onion and green chillies, and fry until fragrant.
  • (18) There are my roast tomatoes with crumbs and thyme, Russell Norman's broad bean, mint and ricotta bruschette, Fuchsia Dunlop's fragrant sea bream, and a beet bourguignon from The Green Kitchen.
  • (19) The Clonakilty black pudding – relatively dry, crumbly, full of oatmeal, fragrantly spiced – is very tasty.
  • (20) With a toddler in tow, après ski for me meant a quick beer then a swim at our hotel – the Lechtaler Hof, smallest and sweetest of Warth’s handful of family-owned hotels – followed by fantastic five-course dinners that might include fragrant dumpling-and-wild-chive soup, roast lamb and divine fruit tarts.

Pungent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.
  • (v. t.) Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.
  • (v. t.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While his organising framework was Marxian (beginning as "an attempt to understand the arts", as he said himself), the subjects included mountain-climbing, opera, jazz and sartorial and eating fashions as well as work patterns, class solidarity and the movements of international finance – all delivered in a marvellously flexible and pungent style.
  • (2) Capsaicin is a pungent irritant present in peppers of the Capsicum family.
  • (3) This variety is not considered in this series of reviews covering primary processing, production, international trade, chemistry, and biochemistry of functional components--the red keto carotenoids, the aromatic volatiles and the pungent capsaicinoids in Parts I to III.
  • (4) It has a metallic, pungently sweaty kick to it, as if someone has absorbed the fluids of a gym changing-room floor into a lump of gluey cheese-like matter.
  • (5) Administration of capsaicin (CAP) and its related pungent, nonanoyl vanillylamide (NVA) produced significant dose-dependent hypothermic response in mice at an ambient temperature of 24 degrees C. CAP was approximately equieffective to NVA in producing hypothermia.
  • (6) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
  • (7) Capsaicin is the main pungent principle of hot pepper, which is consumed in high quantities by humans worldwide.
  • (8) An increase in catecholamine, especially epinephrine, secretion was observed not only on capsaicin infusion but also on piperine (a pungent principle of pepper) and zingerone (ginger) infusion.
  • (9) After 170 years, his rehabilitation is complete, and for Toledo his elongated figures and pungent colours are now an object of civic pride, as Gaudí is for Barcelona.
  • (10) It is anxiety at the great acceleration of social, economic and demographic change wrought by the age of globalisation, expressed most pungently in resentment of mass migration.
  • (11) Measurement of a reflex, transitory apnea produced upon inhalation of pungent chemicals holds promise as an objective indicator of the functional status of the CCS.
  • (12) The pain-mediating function of SP can be blocked selectively by capsaicin, the pungent component of red pepper, which leads to desensitization of the receptors and degeneration of the afferent C fibers without affecting other sensory qualities.
  • (13) Capsaicin, the pungent principal in red pepper, has been shown to damage small-diameter peptide-containing sensory neurons.
  • (14) When they first encounter their "admirer and pupil Zola" he strikes them as a "worn-out Normalien, at once sturdy and puny" but with "a vibrant note of pungent determination and furious energy".
  • (15) And yet the country has some of the most pungent views on immigration on the continent.
  • (16) Results show that the characteristics of the mutual effects of tastant and pungent stimulus depend on the particular tastant employed.
  • (17) This wasn't the usual loveless EastEnders bouquet – a sickly-sweet accompaniment to the ever-present stench of batter mix, rotting market produce and Phil Mitchell's blouson runoff – but a pungent, altogether denser concoction.
  • (18) Among the three new compounds, hazeleamide (3) was found to show a pungent taste and to exert a moderate antimalarial activity in an in vitro test system.
  • (19) While, sulfur-containing and volatile pungent principles, allylisothiocyanate (mustard, etc.)
  • (20) The non-pungent nonenoyl benzylamide produces neither hypothermia nor desensitization.7.