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odorscape

odorscape is the alternative form of odourscape.

Meaning of odourscape

Noun

odourscape (plural odourscapes)

  1. An olfactory environment; the various odours in an environment.
    • We are unable to appreciate the odorscape of a cat or dog.1977, J. Douglas Porteous, chapter 9, in Environment and Behavior: Planning and Everyday Urban Life, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, page 236

Forms of odorscape

pluralodorscapes

Origin of odorscape

From odor + -scape.

Questions about odorscape

What is odorscape the alternative form of?
Odorscape is the alternative form of odourscape.

Words near odorscape in the dictionary

  1. odorprints
  2. odorproof
  3. odorranalectin
  4. odors
  5. odors of sanctity
  6. odorscape
  7. odorscapes
  8. odorsome
  9. odortactic
  10. odortaxis
  11. odortype

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Adapted from Wiktionary: odorscape (page history and authors); odourscape (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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