Odoriferous

Alternative forms

• odouriferous

Origin

Latin, surface analysis is odor + -iferous("bearing, carrying")

Full definition of odoriferous

Adjective

1. Having an odor or fragrance.
• 1851, Herman_Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 77,The tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

Synonyms

• odorous