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Odorous   /ˈoʊdərəs/   Listen
Odorous

adjective
(Written also odourous)
1.
Having odor or a characteristic odor.  "Odorous garbage" , "Fresh odorous bread"
2.
Emitting an odor.  Synonym: odoriferous.
3.
Having a natural fragrance.  Synonyms: odoriferous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling.  "The odorous air of the orchard" , "The perfumed air of June" , "Scented flowers"



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"Odorous" Quotes from Famous Books



... general direction. Toward the east, they knew, lay the railroad and the more cultivated part of the province. Westward were nothing but sterile, arid plains, without water or inhabitants, supporting no vegetation but thorny bushes and the melancholy, odorous mesquite bush. ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering

... Local Government Board. He took complete possession of a first-class smoking carriage, scribbled a telegram, perhaps of international importance, handed it to the guard for instant despatch, and lit a finely-odorous cigar. Hyacinth, humbled by the mere view of this incarnation of the Imperial spirit, went meekly to the waiting-room to fetch Marion and his child. He led them across the now crowded ...
— Hyacinth - 1906 • George A. Birmingham

... cigar IS a rival to the ladies, and their conqueror too. In the chief pipe-smoking nations they are kept in subjection. While the chief, Little White Belt, smokes, the women are silent in his wigwam; while Mahomet Ben Jawbrahim causes volumes of odorous incense of Latakia to play round his beard, the women of the harem do not disturb his meditations, but only add to the delight of them by tinkling on a dulcimer and dancing before him. When Professor Strumpff of Gottingen takes down No. 13 from the wall, with a picture ...
— The Fitz-Boodle Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray

... is written lest ye immoderately grieve for the good which escapeth you, or rejoice for that which happeneth unto you." They might fall in battle, but it was so decreed, and at the resurrection they would appear with their "wounds brilliant as vermilion, and odorous as musk." Since the primary principle of Calvinism is a foundation principle of Pantheism, Socialism, Stoicism, and Mahometanism, Calvinists may well question whether they have not been building upon the sand, instead of the ...
— The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election • Robert Wallace

... town came out and gossiped and worked merrily, until the heat of the sun began to strike with the strokes of a mallet, and then they went into the cool, dark houses and slept as children sleep. And then came blue twilight, and lamps were lit in the green spaces, and into the odorous night would come the golden rounded women with smiles like honey, and the graceful feline men.... A woman's laughter, a man's song.... And the moon rising on tropic seas, while a guitar hummed with a deep vibrant note.... And the perfume ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne


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