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

	

	77 Moby Thesaurus words for "odorous":
   ambrosial, aromatic, bad, bad-smelling, balmy, effluvious,
   essenced, fecal, fetid, flowery, foul, fragrant, frowsty, frowy,
   frowzy, fruity, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, heady,
   high, ill-smelling, incense-breathing, malodorous, mephitic,
   miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musky, musty, nidorous,
   noisome, noxious, odorant, odorate, odored, odoriferous, offensive,
   olfactive, olfactory, olid, perfumed, perfumy, pungent, putrid,
   rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, redolent, reechy, reeking, reeky,
   repulsive, rotten, savory, scented, scentless, smellful, smelling,
   smellsome, smelly, spicy, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy,
   sulfurous, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, thuriferous,
   vile