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Meanings of odorous in English

Having a natural fragrance.

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        Having odor or a characteristic odor.

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              Examples for "odorless"
              1
              It might be that-someodorless, colorless gas of unknown qualities; and yet-
              The Metal Monster
              2
              The bananas give off ethylene, a clear, odorless gas that promotes ripening.
              The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
              3
              It is odorless, tasteless and dissolves immediately in any kind of liquid.
              The Princess Bride
              4
              It is odorless, harmless to breathe and exploded by a wireless-radio device.
              The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds
              5
              She might have known that visiting-cards and printed invitations are generally odorless.
              Half a Rogue

              Odorous.

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                      Usage of odorous in English
                      1
                      The wine is tainted with sulphur in its odorous union with hydrogen.
                      To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I
                      2
                      The dinner-table had been set out of doors, underneath the odorous cedar-tree.
                      The Evil Shepherd
                      3
                      It was one of the moist, pleasantly odorous nights of early spring.
                      Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
                      4
                      The short turf, fragrant with odorous herbs, rose and fell elastic, underfoot.
                      Poor Miss Finch
                      5
                      No trim garden at Rood Hall, no scent from odorous orange blossoms.
                      "My Novel" — Volume 02
                      6
                      He began to surround himself with odorous clouds, to his evident satisfaction.
                      The Hand of Fu-Manchu / Being a New Phase in the Activities of F...
                      7
                      The day came on-glorious, odorous, golden-butwe saw little of its beauty.
                      A Daughter of the Middle Border
                      8
                      It was a dim, odorous, bare little place, this house of worship.
                      Fanny Herself
                      9
                      Dr Callewaert says the development of more odorous underarms is often completely random.
                      Radio NZ
                      10
                      I took it from his hand; it was a pink, faintly odorous blossom.
                      The Morgesons: A Novel
                      11
                      The railway terminus will be odorous with garlic and the humanity of Italy.
                      In Direst Peril
                      12
                      An inexpressible peace swept like the breath of heaven through the odorous places.
                      The Man Between: An International Romance
                      13
                      The air was sweetly odorous with the fragrance of southern blossoms.
                      The Submarine Boys and the Spies / Dodging the Sharks of the Dee...
                      14
                      This cathedral is odorous with the rotting of Correggio's frescoes in the Cupola.
                      Pictures from Italy
                      15
                      It was wrapped in a blanket, and strewn with odorous ferns.
                      The Log School-House on the Columbia
                      16
                      An odorous whiff from the walled rose-garden floated down the air.
                      A Maker of History
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