Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or giving off an odor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving odor or scent, usually a sweet scent; diffusing fragrance; fragrant; perfumed: as, odoriferous spices; odoriferous flowers.
- Bearing scent or perfume: as, odoriferous gales.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having an
odor orfragrance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a natural fragrance
- adjective morally offensive
- adjective emitting an odor
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lebanon -- abounding in odoriferous trees (Ho 14: 5-7).
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Given that Montaigne wrote in odoriferous times, the late 1500s, one would think he’d have more to say than if you smell sweetly you probably stink because you had to perfume yourself to cover up an odor.
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Chester Sloane, spelling "odoriferous" with two f's, was made to feel that he could never live down the disgrace of it, either in this world or that which is to come.
Anne of Avonlea 1909
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The second of July we found shoal water, where we smelt so sweet and so strong a smell, as if we had been in the midst of some delicate garden, abounding with all kind of odoriferous flowers; by which we were assured that the land could not be far distant.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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The sensation of smell, it should be borne in mind, is produced by a kind of odoriferous vapor, very fine and invisible, that flies off from nearly all bodies.
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
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This, constructed of trunks of trees, branches and osiers, was placed about twenty paces from the water, completely concealed by the bushes that encircled it; the inside was fitted up in rustic taste with seats of wood, the whole carpeted with turf, and the entrance planted with every kind of odoriferous flower.
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840
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"odoriferous" with two f's, was made to feel that he could never live down the disgrace of it, either in this world or that which is to come.
Anne of Avonlea 1908
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But if there was any salt it was hiding in the odoriferous gray and fly-speckled sludge, into which my shoes were now sinking.
A Salty Tale From the Islands Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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The smell comes from odoriferous oils enclosed in microcapsules.
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And another odoriferous load of parrot poo dumped on the thread.
yarb commented on the word odoriferous
...the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 77
July 26, 2008
yarb commented on the word odoriferous
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September 29, 2008