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fra⋅grant

[frey-gruhnt]
–adjective
1. having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
2. delightful; pleasant: fragrant memories.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME < L frāgrant- (s. of frāgrāns), prp. of frāgrāre to smell sweet


fra⋅grant⋅ly, adverb
fra⋅grant⋅ness, noun


1. perfumed, odorous, redolent, aromatic.


1. malodorous, noisome.
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fra·grant   (frā'grənt)   
adj.  Having a pleasant odor.

[Middle English, from Latin frāgrāns, frāgrant-, past participle of frāgrāre, to emit an odor.]
fra'grant·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

fragrant 
c.1500, from L. fragrantem (nom. fragrans) "sweet-smelling," prp. of fragrare "emit (a sweet) odor," cognate with M.H.G. bræhen "to smell," M.Du. bracke, O.H.G. braccho "hound, setter" (see brach).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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