Name
The rose is named for its smell--foetida is Latin for "having a bad smell"--which is reminiscent of boiled linseed oil, a smell which some find objectionable. However, according to others "the smell is not all that bad."
Read more about this topic: Rosa Foetida
Famous quotes containing the word name:
“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)