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odoriferous

/ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/US/ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/

odoriferous adjective: having an odor or fragrance.

Adjective

odoriferous (comparative more odoriferous, superlative most odoriferous)

  1. Having an odor or fragrance.
    • Lewis the eleventh had a conceit everything did stinke about him, all the odoriferous perfumes they could get, would not ease him, but still hee^([sic]) smelled a filthy stinke.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter 1, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC...
    • True, the rich spices, the perfumed woods, the fragrant oils, which would feed the sacred fire of my funeral pyre, would save my mortal remains from that corruption which makes the disgust of death even worse than its dread. A few odoriferous ashes alone would be left for my urn.1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 20

odoriferous meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

odoriferous in Tamil

நாற்றம் வீசும், மணக்கும்

odoriferous in Urdu

تیز خوشبو والا

odoriferous in Bengali

সুগন্ধি, সুবাসিত, তীব্র গন্ধযুক্ত

Examples of odoriferous in a sentence

  • The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.1874, Charles Darwin, “Secondary Sexual Characters of Mammals—continued”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], 2nd...
  • While most fetishists were content to own any pair of tiny shoes, there remained a fanatical group more focused in their kinky desires, demanding shoes that were especially odoriferous.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave...

Synonyms of odoriferous

All synonyms of odoriferous

Forms of odoriferous

comparativemore odoriferous
superlativemost odoriferous
alternative formodouriferous

Origin of odoriferous

From Latin. By surface analysis, odor + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.

Words formed from odoriferous

Words that rhyme with odoriferous

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Questions about odoriferous

What does odoriferous mean?
Odoriferous means having an odor or fragrance.
What is odoriferous in Tamil?
Odoriferous in Tamil is நாற்றம் வீசும், மணக்கும். See Odoriferous meaning in Tamil.
How do you use odoriferous in a sentence?
The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.
What part of speech is odoriferous?
Odoriferous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce odoriferous?
Odoriferous is pronounced /ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/ (UK).

Words near odoriferous in the dictionary

  1. odorful
  2. Odorheiu Secuiesc
  3. odori
  4. odoriferant
  5. odoriferosity
  6. odoriferous
  7. odoriferously
  8. odoriferousness
  9. odorific
  10. odorimeter
  11. odorimeters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: odoriferous (page history and authors); odoriferous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); odoriferous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); odoriferous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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