Pungent /(?)/

Pun·gent

Pungent

a.
  1. Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.
    Pungent radish biting infant's tongue.
    — Shenstone.
    The pungent grains of titillating dust.
  2. Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.
    With pungent pains on every side.
    His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation.
    — J. R. Green.
  3. Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. (Bot.)