odoriferous

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/
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/ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/ · /ˌəʊdəˈɹɪfɹəs/ · /ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfəɹəs/ · /ˌoʊdəˈɹɪfɹəs/

Definition of odoriferous

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having an odor or fragrance.
    “Lewis the eleventh had a conceit everything did stinke about him, all the odoriferous perfumes they could get, would not ease him, but still hee^([sic]) smelled a filthy stinke.”
    “True, the rich spices, the perfumed woods, the fragrant oils, which would feed the sacred fire of my funeral pyre, would save my mortal remains from that corruption which makes the disgust of death even worse than its dread. A few odoriferous ashes alone would be left for my urn.”
    “Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.”
    “The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.”
    “While most fetishists were content to own any pair of tiny shoes, there remained a fanatical group more focused in their kinky desires, demanding shoes that were especially odoriferous.”

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Etymology

From Latin. By surface analysis, odor + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.

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