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# odorous

«odorous» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a smell, usually a pleasant or strong one** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Odorous means having a smell, usually a pleasant or strong one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odorous/#m1)

2) (old use) Odorous describes something sweet-smelling, like flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odorous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales an odorous flower or person is described as sweet-scented, as in fairy-tale beauty

### examples

- The garden was odorous with roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odorous/#x1)
- The odorous herbs hung in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odorous/#x2)
- She was as white and odorous as the blossom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odorous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «odorous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odorous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.