odorous
adjEtymology From Middle English odorous, from Medieval Latin odōrōsus, equivalent to odor + -ous.
1
Having a distinctive odor.
- The table was piled with odorous lilies.
- Synonyms
- odoriferous
- Derived terms
- inodorous, malodorous, nonodorous, odorous house ant, odorously, odorousness, unodorous