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."
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Famous quotes containing the word name:
“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)
“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)