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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. having odor or a characteristic odor;
- Example: "odorous jasmine flowers"
- Example: "odorous garbage"
- Example: "fresh odorous bread"

2. emitting an odor;
- Example: "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack"
[syn: odoriferous, odorous]

3. having a natural fragrance;
- Example: "odoriferous spices"
- Example: "the odorous air of the orchard"
- Example: "the perfumed air of June"
- Example: "scented flowers"
[syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Odorous \O"dor*ous\, a. [Written also odourous.] [L. odorus,
   fr. odor odor: cf. OF. odoros, odoreux.]
   Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor;
   fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." --Keble.
   [1913 Webster]

         Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell.
                                                  --Spenser.
   [1913 Webster] -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness,
   n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

odorous
    adj 1: having odor or a characteristic odor; "odorous jasmine
           flowers"; "odorous garbage"; "fresh odorous bread" [ant:
           inodorous, odorless, odourless]
    2: emitting an odor; "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack"
       [syn: odoriferous, odorous]
    3: having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the
       odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June";
       "scented flowers" [syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed,
       scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling]