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Definition of "odoriferous" []

  • Having or giving off an odor. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "odoriferous" in a sentence
  • "Lebanon -- abounding in odoriferous trees (Ho 14: 5-7)."
  • "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."
  • "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."