odour
Words Nearby odour
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How to use odour in a sentence
Colorectal cancer screening with odour material by canine scent detection.
It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt curled and twisted in the embers as if it had been a living thing; a puff of smoke, a pungent odour, and it was gone.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsA painful odour arose in spite of the aromatic plants with which it was covered.
Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) | Alexandre Dumas, filsThe kolim-tree diffuses an excessively strong odour, similar to that of onions, indicating its site at some distance off.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer
With his evasive singularity was mingled a certain exotic odour like the distant perfume of a country well loved of the sun.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierIt has the odour of thyme, is sparingly soluble in water, but very soluble in alcohol, ether and in alkaline solutions.
British Dictionary definitions for odour
US odor
/ (ˈəʊdə) /
the property of a substance that gives it a characteristic scent or smell
a pervasive quality about something: an odour of dishonesty
repute or regard (in the phrases in good odour, in bad odour)
Origin of odour
1Derived forms of odour
- odourless or US odorless, adjective
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