ADJECTIVE
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emitting an odor
odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack -
having a natural fragrance
the perfumed air of June
the odorous air of the orchard
odoriferous spices
scented flowers
How To Use odoriferous In A Sentence
- That's partly because the odoriferous component is so small.
- Fill your empty backpack with a freshly baked baguette, a fine, odoriferous fromage, a bottle of red, some fruit and you're good to go.
- Flowers are hexamerous, tubular, whitish and odoriferous, pollinated by relatively specialized vectors as large bees and hawkmoths.
- Composting toilets are a world away from the odoriferous outhouses of yesteryear.
- Whether these odoriferous particles attend the perspirable matter in consequence of the increased action of the capillary glands, and can properly be called excrementitous; that is, whether any thing is eliminated, which could be hurtful if retained; or whether they may only contain some of the essential oil of the animal; like the smell, which adheres to one's hand on stroking the hides of some dogs; or like the effluvia, which is left upon the ground, from the feet of men and other creatures; and is perceptible by the nicer organs of the dogs, which hunt them, may admit of doubt. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- Incredible at a style, more explicit instrumentalities and intellectual charge, as an odoriferous chrisom, she anoints by the singular attars to the wisdom and the creative beauty. Nina Mindova author of poetry book"Secret feelings"
- And another odoriferous load of parrot poo dumped on the thread. Think Progress » Perriello Blasts GOP Leaders In Washington For Refusing To Completely Denounce Harassment Of Democrats
- My dear father, said she, it is an apple, upon which is written the name of our lord and master the caliph; our slave Rihan [Footnote: This word signifies, in Arabic, basilic, an odoriferous plant; and the Arabians call their slaves by this name, as the custom in France is to give the name of jessamin to The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
- Some few exude, by incision, odoriferous gums, as benzoin, olibanum, myrrh, &c.; others give, by the same act, what are called balsams, which appear to be mixtures of an odorous oil and an inodorous gum. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
- Both are odoriferous and incompatible with most of the newly-discovered positions described in the Kama Sutra.