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odourous

odourous is the misspelling of odorous.

Meaning of odorous

Adjective

odorous (comparative more odorous, superlative most odorous)

  1. Having a distinctive odor.
    • The table was piled with odorous lilies.
    Synonyms:
    odoriferous

Words formed from odourous

Questions about odourous

What is odourous the misspelling of?
Odourous is the misspelling of odorous.

Words near odourous in the dictionary

  1. odourised
  2. odourization
  3. odourless
  4. odourlessly
  5. odourlessness
  6. odourous
  7. odourously
  8. odourousness
  9. odourprint
  10. odourprints
  11. odourproof

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Adapted from Wiktionary: odourous (page history and authors); odorous (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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