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noun a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-? Proto-Italic *malos Latin malus Latin maleder. Old French mal- English mal- English odor English malodor From mal- (“bad”) + odor.
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