Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a distinctive odor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or emitting an odor; sweet of scent; fragrant: as, odorous substances.
- Synonyms Balmy, aromatic, perfumed, sweet-scented, odoriferous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.
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- adjective Having a
distinctive odor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a natural fragrance
- adjective emitting an odor
- adjective having odor or a characteristic odor
Etymologies
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Examples
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They're called odorous because they have a coconut - or rum-like smell when crushed.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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They're called odorous because they have a coconut - or rum-like smell when crushed.
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They're called odorous because they have a coconut - or rum-like smell when crushed.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Although the project could be described as odorous, Gothenburg will probably take money to help pay for it.
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The floor of the cage was slippery with a kind of odorous slime.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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Recovering himself, and seeing an "odorous" name in the future, he attempted apology and reparation for the insult, and complete reconciliation.
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy 1872
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Comparisons are "odorous," we know, as the learned Dogberry hath said; but the writer means nothing unkind by these remarks.
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They are dubbed 'odorous' and 'coconut' due to the coconut - or rum-like smell they release when crushed.
Livescience.com 2010
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County Legislator Wally Huckno, D-Jamestown, called Mueller's proposal '' odorous '' and
Post-Journal 2008
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County Legislator Wally Huckno, D-Jamestown, called Mueller's proposal '' odorous '' and
Post-Journal 2008
whichbe commented on the word odorous
The Weirdnet entry here is rather peculiar.
July 25, 2008
yarb commented on the word odorous
I especially like the inclusion of tansy and balsam resin.
July 25, 2008
dontcry commented on the word odorous
We say "odiforous" in our house. Usually after someone has just come from the barn, or cleaned out from under the bed (monsters are stinky), or taken off their baseball shirt, or cut the cheese, or....
NOW do you understand my fondness for The Porch? Join me, won't you?
July 25, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word odorous
Wow. Did they really have to list all those smells? They forgot to include hundreds of thousands of others. Why is "smelling of tansy" more important than, say, "smelling of rain on warm asphalt"? Bzuh?
Edited. Thanks, Dontcry! :)
July 25, 2008
dontcry commented on the word odorous
I prefer "smelling of rain on warm hay..." Eh?
July 25, 2008
dontcry commented on the word odorous
(psst, mia: "did they really HAVE to list...") :-)
July 25, 2008
yarb commented on the word odorous
Weirdnet is capricious, Mia. Ours is not to reason why.
July 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word odorous
Right. Ours is but to list or die.
Why did you not add bzuh? That's teh alsome.
July 25, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word odorous
Bzuh? is inseparable from its question mark. It saddens me that whenever I try to list it, Wordie goes all 500 Application Error on me. Oh, well.
July 25, 2008
bilby commented on the word odorous
Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I am looking up at the stars,
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman, 'Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun'.
November 17, 2008