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One's impulse is to say that the smell was a stink and unpleasant.
Urine usually does not stink for long, particularly when it is fresh, diluted, or put on sorbents.
Bt cotton is ineffective against many cotton pests, however, such as plant bugs, stink bugs, and aphids ; depending on circumstances it may still be desirable to use insecticides against these.
*" Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
Noxubee, derived from the Choctaw word nakshobi, is a Native American word meaning to stink.
They refuse because all they know how to do is fish and stink.
The list is polyphyletic and the species commonly called badgers do not, if the stink badgers are included, form a valid clade.
In the Irish Times he famously stated that " Wherever there is a stink in international affairs, you will find that Henry Kissinger has recently visited.
Meanwhile, Gadget and the Gadgetinis must protect the stink animals during the contest which is organized by Dr. Claw.
* Pentatomidae – Known as stink bugs, it is the largest family in Pentatomoidea.
Pentatomidae, Greek pente meaning five and tomos meaning section, is a family of insects belonging to order Hemiptera including some of the stink bugs and shield bugs.
The forewings of stink bugs are called hemelytra, with the basal half thickened while the apex is membranous ( as are the hindwings ).
The idiomatic term " stink bug " is also applied to distantly related species such as Boisea trivittata, the " boxelder bug ", and entirely different types of insects such as beetles in the genus Eleodes (" pinacate beetles ").
The shocker, also known colloquially as " two in the pink, one in the stink " is a hand gesture with a sexual connotation.
" The next day a growing sense of panic becomes apparent: " Up, and more letters still from Sir W. Coventry about more fire-ships, and so Sir W. Batten and I to the office, where Bruncker come to us, who is just now going to Chatham upon a desire of Commissioner Pett's, who is in a very fearful stink for fear of the Dutch, and desires help for God and the King and kingdom's sake.
The top of stacks must be vented too, via a stack vent, which is sometimes called a stink pipe.
The name " stink bug ," which is more regularly applied to the family Pentatomidae, is sometimes used to refer to Boisea trivittata.
:... that Augiae Stabulum, the church of Durham ... whose stink is grievous in the nose of God and of men and which to purge far passeth Hercules ' labours ( BL, Lansdowne MS. 25, fols.
The horehound bug, Agonoscelis rutila, is a stink bug which sucks the sap of the horehound plant, causing wilting of new shoots.
It is also the main component of the defensive fluid produced by the stink bug Cosmopepla bimaculata.
Although at certain times large quantities of seaweed are still washed up, it is usually removed before it gets a chance to stink.
Baltimore in the 1880s smelled " like a billion polecats ," according to H. L. Mencken, and a Chicagoan said in his city " the stink is enough to knock you down.

stink and all
* " You can read all the books in the library, but the cheese will still stink.
The two stink badgers in the Mydaus genus inhabit Indonesia and the Philippines ; while all other members of the family inhabit the Americas, ranging from Canada to central South America.
The stink badgers are smaller still, and the ferret badgers are the smallest of all.
: In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore.
He explains that he has been fired from the mine, as he is now incontinent and there are no toilets down in the mine, so all day he would stink " like an animal ".

stink and me
Boye Ladd says, " If you give me a stink song, I'll dance stink.
" A 2003 strip depicting a character using an outhouse with a crescent symbol on the front, slamming the door shut, and declaring, " Is it just me, or does it stink in here?

stink and I
`` I think you stink, Tom Lord!!
Patton noted his response in his diary, " I told Bradley that it was probably an exaggeration, but in any case to tell the Officer to certify that the dead men were snipers or had attempted to escape or something, as it would make a stink in the press and also would make the civilians mad.
I told Bradley that it was probably an exaggeration, but in any case to tell the Officer to certify that the dead men were snipers or had attempted to escape or something, as it would make a stink in the press and also would make the civilians mad.
With Dennis, I just figured it was job done and I didn ’ t want to be the kid with a stink bomb any more.

stink and really
It may be more likely than you think, although, for sure, it really does stink ”.

stink and they
Also hadith literature prohibits beasts having sharp canine teeth, birds having claws and talons in their feet, Jallalah ( animals whose meat carries a stink in it because they feed on filth ), tamed donkeys, and any piece cut from a living animal.
Until recently, the stink badgers had been classified with the other badgers on the basis of physical examination, but genetic testing has proven correct those who believed stink badgers share a more recent common ancestor with skunks than they do with the weasel family ; stink badgers have therefore been transferred from the Mustelidae to the skunk family.
' " 24 So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it.
In 1992, they sabotaged two Japanese ships that were drift-net fishing for squid by cutting their nets and throwing stink bombs on board the boats.
Some adult milichiids, for example, visit spider webs where they scavenge on half-eaten stink bugs.
After eating too much, the Gadgetinis stink and win the contest, but they realize that the winning animal will be crashed to the concentrated stink extract which then will be used to stink the whole world.
The police were dispatched to the house numerous times but when they arrived the Skunk Ape, also known as the stink ape, was gone.
Many stink bugs and shield bugs are considered agricultural pest insects, because they can create large populations, which feed on crops ( damaging production ), and they are resistant to many pesticides.
* They were once known as “ stink birds ”, because they were often chosen over Quail by hunting dogs.
One might also refer to Gamle Ole's pungency when talking about things that are not quite right, i. e. " they stink ".
It was unusual, but it's not like anyone raised a stink about it, because they had no way of judging whether this was appropriate material for comics or not.
" Other pearls include: " Bury the dead, they stink up the joint.
They are afraid of Elves because they " stink funny.
Perhaps the only part of Rafflesia that is identifiable as distinctly plant-like are the flowers ; although, even these are unusual since they attain massive proportions, have a reddish-brown coloration and stink of rotting flesh, which is why it was nicknamed the " corpse flower ".
Using stink bombs for these purposes have advantages over traditional riot control agents: unlike pepper spray and tear gas, stink bombs are believed not to be dangerous, and they are effective at low concentrations.
They are very versatile and can be boiled, fried, baked or even raw, though this sushi approach can be difficult to swallow as the stink associated with the worms does not disappear until they are cooked.
Western conifer seed bugs are sometimes mistakenly identified as stink bugs due to the unpleasant aroma they emit when disturbed.

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