odori-, odor-, odoro- +

(Latin: smell [noun form])


cacodorous
Bad-smelling, ill-smelling, malodorous.
Cucumis melo inodorus
Any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell.
deodorant, deodorous
A substance or preparation that destroys the odor of fetid effluvia, etc.; a deodorizer.
deodorization
1. The removal of a bad odor or smell or to neutralize or absorb an odor.
2. To make more acceptable, as by the elimination or the suppression of some offensive aspect.
deodorize, deordorise (British)
1. To deprive of an odor; especially, of offensive, or bad, odors or smells.
2. To disguise or eliminate unpleasant odors in a place.
deodorizer
Something that deordorizes; a deordorizing agent.
inodorous, inodorousness
1. Destitute of odor; without smell or scent; oderless.
2. Having no smell or odor.
malodor
Smelling unpleasant or offensive.
malodorous
An evil and/or a terribly bad odor or smell.
malodorously
A description of having a bad odor; a foul stink.
malodorousness
1. The attribute of having a strong offensive smell.
2. Foul or disgusting smells that range from the unpleasant to the strongly offensive.
odor, odour (British spelling)
1. That property of a substance that is perceptible by the sense of smell; scent, smell; sometimes, specifically, sweet or pleasing scent; fragrance.
2. A substance that emits a sweet smell or scent; a perfume; especially, incense, spice, ointment, etc.; also, an odoriferous flower.
3. A smell or scent, whether pleasant or unpleasant.
odorant
1. That which emits a scent.
2. Something that gives a characteristic smell to a product.
odoriferous
1. That which bears, or diffuses, a scent or smell; odorous but fragrant; rarely, of an unpleasant odor.
2. Giving off a pleasing scent; diffusing fragrance; fragrant; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; as odoriferous spices; odoriferous flowers.
odorimeter
An instrument for measuring the intensity of odors.

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "smell, odor": arom-; brom-; olfacto-; osmo-; osphresio-; ozon-.


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