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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having or giving off an odor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Giving odor or scent, usually a sweet scent; diffusing fragrance; fragrant; perfumed: as, odoriferous spices; odoriferous flowers.
  2. Bearing scent or perfume: as, odoriferous gales.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having an odor or fragrance.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having a natural fragrance
  2. adj. morally offensive
  3. adj. emitting an odor

Etymologies

  1. Latin, surface analysis is odor +‎ -iferous (“bearing, carrying”) (Wiktionary)

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  • yarb Citation on revile. Sep 29, 2008

  • yarb ...the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 77 Jul 26, 2008

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