Definitions for odorous

odorous o·dor·ous

Spelling: [oh-der-uh s]
IPA: /ˈoʊ dər əs/

Odorous is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in odorous (dooorsu).

Definitions for odorous

adjective

  1. odoriferous.

Origin of odorous

First recorded in 1540-50, odorous is from the Latin word odōrus fragrant. See odor, -ous

Examples for odorous

The neighbourhood may be odorous, but it is full of human possibilities.

The railway terminus will be odorous with garlic and the humanity of Italy.

It is shadowed and scented by a hundred sorts of odorous shrubs and flowers.

It was enough to be seated here, close with her in the starry, odorous night.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

He pushed it open, and stepped into the odorous darkness of its interior.

I meant no comparisons; comparisons are odorous, saith Dogberry.

A cabbage stew, in progress on the stove, filled the room with an odorous steam.

The day came on—glorious, odorous, golden—but we saw little of its beauty.

Mutely together they moved through the lonesome, odorous twilight.

Word Value for odorous
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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