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Definition of Nidorous
1. a. Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter.
Definition of Nidorous
1. Adjective. (literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nidorous
1. strongly smelling [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nidorous
Literary usage of Nidorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to by Peter Mark Roget (1858)
"... nidorous, pungent. Relating to the sense of smell ; olfactory ; quick-scented.
... nidorous, fulsome, stinking, rotten, putrescent, putrid, putrefying, ..."
2. The Homoeopathic Materia Medica: Arranged Systematically and Practically by Alphonse Teste (1854)
"The sub-nitrate, say they, is adapted to persons suffering with slow digestion,
nidorous eructations, and a tendency to slow diarrhoea. ..."
3. Select Cases, and Consultations, in Physick by John Woodward (1757)
"... fetid nidorous Smell. When he rid out, it was followed by Pains in his Ere
aft, Sides, ... with a nidorous Smell, exactly like that of his Sweat before. ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"Incense and nidorous smells (such as were of sacrifices) were thought to intoxicate
the brain, and to dispose men to devotion : which they may do by a kind ..."
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