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suaveolent

suaveolent adjective: sweet-smelling.

Adjective

suaveolent (comparative more suaveolent, superlative most suaveolent)

  1. (rare) Sweet-smelling.
    • Aromatization is an artificiall manner of preparation, whereby Medicaments are made more odoriferous, and ſuaveolent, to the better acceptation of the palate, and heart, and the greater ſtrength and oblectation to the vitall and animall faculties.1657, Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables...
    • High over head, sublimely through the air, / Suaveolent, the viands valets bear, / And pacing lightly the well-cushion’d ground, / Though nowhere heard, yet, every where are found.1819, [Hans Busk], The Banquet: In Three Cantos, London: […] Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, page 62, lines 543–546

Examples of suaveolent in a sentence

  • […]—Guyana, spatha white, base red, suaveolent.1836, C[onstantine] S[amuel] Rafinesque, Flora Telluriana: Pars Tertia. Third Part of the Synoptical Flora Telluriana, Centuries V, VI...
  • The cold-store was (inevitably, I suppose) the tabernacle before which I made my own private devotions, for there the great carcasses hung – alluring and suaveolent, raw and richly sweaty;1997, David Madsen, Confessions of a Flesh-Eater, Dedalus, →ISBN, page 34:

Forms of suaveolent

comparativemore suaveolent
superlativemost suaveolent

Origin of suaveolent

From Latin suāveolēns, suāveolentem.

Questions about suaveolent

What does suaveolent mean?
Suaveolent means sweet-smelling.
How do you use suaveolent in a sentence?
[…]—Guyana, spatha white, base red, suaveolent.
What part of speech is suaveolent?
Suaveolent is an adjective.

Words near suaveolent in the dictionary

  1. suastica
  2. suasticas
  3. suave
  4. suavely
  5. suaveness
  6. suaveolent
  7. suaver
  8. suaves
  9. suavest
  10. suaviate
  11. suaviated

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