Meaning: Any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally.
Word Origin & History. smell c.1175, emit or perceive an odor, also n., odor, aroma, stench, not found in O.E., perhaps cognate with M.Du. smolen, Low Ger. smelen to smolder (see smolder). OED says no doubt of O.E. origin, but not recorded, and not represented in any of the cognate languages.. Ousted O.E. stenc (see stench) in most senses.
1 Tube sounds like choob.. 2  There is a distinction between words like wine and whine.. 3  Words with wh begin with an initial h sound; try expelling a bit of breath before the word -- the result should be something akin to hwine.. 4  Some Irish accents turn think and that into tink and dat, respectively.