odoriferous.

Giving off a noticeable smell.

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Words that belong together

• an odoriferous plant
• odoriferous fumes

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The odoriferous plant scented the passage before anyone saw its flowers.

They traced the odoriferous fumes to the damaged cabinet.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Relational or color adjective; more and most only in a natural qualitative comparison. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.