Read full poem →To leafless shrubs the flowering palms succeed,
And odorous myrtle to the noisome weed.
The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead,
Dictionary Entry
Having a distinctive odor.
In a Sentence
“The table was piled with odorous lilies.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
substances odorous. odoroussubstance odorouscompounds odorousparticles odorousair odorous
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Poetry examples for “odorous”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Moves as the heart of a bud
Beating with odorous blood
To the tune of the loud first bird
Read full poem →Where, upon Apennine slope, with the chestnut the oak-trees immingle,
Where, amid odorous copse bridle-paths wander and wind,
Where, under mulberry-branches, the diligent rivulet sparkles,
Read full poem →And turn the blackest sorrows to bright joys:
Whose odorous breath destroys
All taste of bitterness, and makes the air
Read full poem →That gave out, in return for the love-light,
Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death--
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
Read full poem →I see a little green by Camolin
And odorous orchards blooming in Provence.
Read full poem →Out of the urgent heat
In some clear glimmering vaulted twilight under the odorous vine.
Read full poem →And singing-birds in silver cages hung;
And every fragrant flower, and odorous green,
Were sorted well, with lumps of amber laid between;