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incense sticks

incense sticks is the plural of incense stick.

Meaning of incense stick

Noun

incense stick (plural incense sticks)

  1. A thin stick covered with incense that burns slowly and gives off fragrant smoke when set alight.
    • For instance, Hawkins, Lewis, Hankin and Sengupta all cover the word agarbatti, an incense stick or joss stick, but there is no way of knowing when this term was first used in Indian English, nor whether it is now current or obsolete.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 300

Questions about incense sticks

What is incense sticks the plural of?
Incense sticks is the plural of incense stick.

Words near incense sticks in the dictionary

  1. incense boats
  2. incense burner
  3. incense cedar
  4. incense cedars
  5. incense stick
  6. incense sticks
  7. incense tree
  8. incense trees
  9. incensed
  10. incenseless
  11. incensement

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