Dictionary Entry

provocative

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/pɹəˈvɒk.ə.tɪv/Used In Literature ↓

(obsolescent) Something that provokes an appetite, especially a sexual appetite; an aphrodisiac.

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Poetry examples for “provocative”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

That which we were we could no more remain
Than in the moist provocative vernal mould
A seed its suckers close and rest a seed;

That which we were we could no more remain
Than in the moist provocative vernal mould
A seed its suckers close and rest a seed;