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Mice infected with dengue or Zika viruses — and people infected with dengue — emit a flowery, orange-smelling chemical that tempts hungry mosquitoes, researchers report June 30 in Cell.
THE FLOWERY SCENT OF A ZIKA OR DENGUE INFECTION LURES MOSQUITOESERIN GARCIA DE JESÚSJULY 11, 2022SCIENCE NEWSLiterally and figuratively, their lives seemed to wander through flowery pleasure-paths.
RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLThey wound through the flowery labyrinth whose mazes were her care and delight.
ALONEMARION HARLANDThe Arab bowed low before the bishop and Bouillon, and muttered some flowery compliments in his own tongue.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISShe was a tiny thing, in a marvellous frock and a flowery hat and a silver girdle and chatelaine.
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLANDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGINNone of your vales, nor your dews and your roses—and your flowery fields, and your myrtle groves.
THE HUBBLE-SHUECHRISTIAN CARSTAIRSThey'd talk be th' hour about th' beauties iv what Hogan called th' Flowery Kingdom.
MR. DOOLEY SAYSFINLEY DUNNEHer life has been like one of the flowery paths we have been following through the forest.
THE TIGER HUNTERMAYNE REIDWho for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spreads the flowery lawn.
THE ONTARIO READERS: THE HIGH SCHOOL READER, 1886MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONPleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
THE ONTARIO READERS: THE HIGH SCHOOL READER, 1886MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONWORDS RELATED TO FLOWERY
- aggrandized
- amplified
- augmented
- aureate
- bloated
- bombastic
- diffuse
- dilated
- distended
- dropsical
- enlarged
- euphuistic
- extended
- filled
- flatulent
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grown
- hot-air
- magnified
- magniloquent
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overestimated
- pompous
- pretentious
- prolix
- puffed
- pumped-up
- ranting
- rhapsodical
- rhetorical
- showy
- spread
- stretched
- surcharged
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- windy
- wordy
- aromatic
- balmy
- dank
- effluvious
- fetid
- flavorsome
- flowery
- foul
- fragrant
- heady
- honeyed
- loud
- malodorous
- mephitic
- miasmic
- moldy
- musty
- nauseous
- odoriferant
- odoriferous
- offensive
- olfactive
- olfactory
- perfumatory
- perfumed
- perfumy
- pungent
- putrid
- redolent
- reeking
- rotten
- savorous
- savory
- scent-laden
- scented
- scentful
- skunky
- smelly
- spicy
- stagnant
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- sweet
- sweet-scented
- sweet-smelling
- tumaceous
- unsavory
- whiffy
- adorned
- aureate
- baroque
- beautiful
- bedecked
- bright
- brilliant
- busy
- colored
- convoluted
- dazzling
- elaborate
- elegant
- embroidered
- fancy
- fine
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- florid
- flowery
- fussy
- gaudy
- gilded
- glamorous
- glitzy
- glossy
- high-wrought
- jeweled
- lavish
- luscious
- magnificent
- meretricious
- opulent
- ornamented
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overelaborate
- pretentious
- resplendent
- rich
- rococo
- showy
- sparkling
- splashy
- sumptuous
- superficial
- tawdry
- variegated
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed-up
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
- affected
- arty
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- exaggerated
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- hollow
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overambitious
- overblown
- pompous
- puffed up
- put on
- rhetorical
- showy
- specious
- splashy
- stilted
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- turgid
- utopian
- vainglorious
- affected
- bloated
- boastful
- bombastic
- conceited
- flatulent
- flaunting
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-and-mighty
- high-flown
- highfalutin
- hoity-toity
- imperious
- important
- inflated
- magisterial
- magniloquent
- narcissistic
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overbearing
- overblown
- pontifical
- portentous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffy
- rhetorical
- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
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