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nidorous
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nidorousadjective
Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.
Etymology: From nidor + -ous, or from nidorosus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Nidorousadjective
Resembling the smell or taste of roasted fat.
Etymology: nidoreux, from nidor.
Incense and nidorous smells, such as of sacrifices, were thought to intoxicate the brain, and to dispose men to devotion; which they may do by a kind of contristation of the spirits, and partly also by heating and exalting them. Francis Bacon.
The signs of the functions of the stomach being depraved, are eructatious either with the taste of the aliment, acid, nidorose, or fœtid, resembling the taste of rotten eggs. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
Webster Dictionary
Nidorousadjective
resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter
Etymology: [L. nidorosus steaming, reeking: cf. F. nidoreux. See Nidor.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of nidorous in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of nidorous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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