Odoriferous

Definitions: Odoriferous

Odoriferous

Adjective

1. Morally offensive; "odoriferous legislation".

2. Giving off an odor; "the odoriferous elements in perfume".

3. Emitting an odor; "odoriferous blossoms"; "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack".

4. Having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers".

Date "odoriferous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Odoriferous

Synonyms: odorous (adj), perfumed (adj), scented (adj), sweet (adj), sweet-scented (adj), sweet-smelling (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Odoriferous

English words defined with "odoriferous": Aromatical ♦ joss stick ♦ neroli oil ♦ Olfactory organ. (references)

Specialty definitions using "odoriferous": Naso ♦ pharmaceutical taste. (references)

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Mixtures of Odoriferous Substances with One or More Odoriferous Substances As Industrial Raw Materials: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Colombia	Best sales prospects include white mineral oils, alcohol's, phenols, o-acetylsalicylic acid, its salts and esters, amino-acids, vegetable and synthetic tanning and coloring substances, essential oils, flavorings, fragrances or odoriferous (raw materials) substances, base chemical products for cosmetics, soaps, detergents and cleaning, sodium bicarbonate, phosphates, chlorides, iodine, camphor, and surface-active agents (tensoactives). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Odoriferous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Odoriferous" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	6	143,867

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "odoriferous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kundërmues (odorous, redolent), erëmirë (fragrant, odorous, redolent, sweet-scented), aromatik (flavored, flavoured, fragrant, nosey, odorous, sweet-scented). (various references)

Arabic		‏ذو رائحة (odorous, redolent, smelly). (various references)

Bulgarian		вонящ (foxy, rammish, rank, smelling, smelly, stank, stinking), ароматен (ambrosial, balmy, fragrant, odorous, sapid, scented, spicy, sweet-scented), благоуханен (ambrosial, fragrant, odorous, redolent, scented), благовонен. (various references)

Chinese		芬芳 (fragrance, fragrant). (various references)

Danish		lugtstof (gas odorant, odorant, odoriferous substance, odorizer, skunk oil). (various references)

Dutch		reukstof (flavouring, odoriferous substance). (various references)

French		odoriférant, parfumé (odorous). (various references)

German		wohlriechend (aromatic, balmy, fragrant, good-smelling, nutty, odorous, perfumed). (various references)

Greek		ευώδησ (fragrant, odorous, redolent). (various references)

Hebrew		נותן ריח. (various references)

Hungarian		szagos (high, odorous, smelly, sweet), illatozó (fragrant, odorous, redolent), illatos (balmy, fragrant, nosy, odorous, redolent, sweet, to embalm). (various references)

Italian		odoroso, fragrante, profumato, odorifero (odorous, smelling), profumato (fragrant, luscious, redolent, scented, sweet). (various references)

Korean		향기로운 (Aromatic, Aromatical, fragrant). (various references)

Manx		soaralagh (olfactive). (various references)

Pig Latin		odoriferousay

Portuguese		odorífero (fragrant, sweet), conceito (concept, conception, idea, imaginative, maxim, notion, odourless, opinion, proverb, reputation), cheiroso. (various references)

Romanian		urât mirositor (noisome), parfumat (aromatic, balmy, flavorous, redolent, scented, spicy), frumos mirositor. (various references)

Russian		душистый (fragrant, odorous, perfumed, redolent, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mirisan (aromatic, deodorant, flavored, flavoured, fragrant, odorous, perfumed, redolent, savory, savoury, scented, smelling), mirišljav (aromatic, fragrant, savory, savoury, smelling). (various references)

Spanish		odorífero. (various references)

Swedish		välluktande (fragrant, odorous), doftande (flavorous, fragrant, odorous, redolent, scented). (various references)

Thai		ที่มีกลิ่นหอม (odorous). (various references)

Turkish		kokulu (aromatic, balsamic, fragrant, nosey, nosy, odorous, perfumed, redolent, Savory, savoury, scented, spiced, spicy), hoş kokulu (balmy, odorous, sweetscented), güzel kokulu (aromatic, fragrant, nosey, nosy, redolent). (various references)

Ukranian		смердючий (fetid, foetid, foul, goatish, malodorous, nauseous, noisome, nosey, nosy, olid, pestilential, putrescent, putrid, smelly, stinking), запашний (aromatic, balmy, nectareous, odorant, odorous, perfumed, racy, sweet), пахучий (aromatic, odorant, odorous, savoury, smelling), духмяний (balmy, fragrant, nectareous, odorant, odorous). (various references)

Vietnamese		toả hương thơm, có mùi thơm (flavoursome, sweet-scented). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	odorifer. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "odoriferous": odoriferously, odoriferousness, odoriferousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Odoriferous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oderiferous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "odoriferous" (pronounced 'O`dor*if"er*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-o-o-o-r-r-s-u"
	-4 letters: durries, ferrous, foodies, fordoes, friseur, furioso, furores, odorous, ordures, oroides, reroofs, roofers, surfier.
	-5 letters: derris, doofus, dories, dorser, dourer, douser, driers, durrie, fiords, firers, foodie, foredo, friers, furies, furore, furors, furred, iodous, odious, odours, orders, ordure, oroide, reroof, riders, rodeos, roofed, roofer, roosed, rooser, rosier, roused, rouser, sordor, soured, sourer, surfed, surfer.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-o-o-o-r-r-s-u"
	+2 letters: odoriferously.
	+4 letters: odoriferousness.
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