BODY ODOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body odor mean? 

• BODY ODOR (noun)
  The noun BODY ODOR has 1 sense:

1. malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe

  Familiarity information: BODY ODOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY ODOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Malodorousness resulting from a failure to bathe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

B.O.; body odor; body odour

Hypernyms ("body odor" is a kind of...):

fetidness; foulness; malodorousness; rankness; stinkiness (the attribute of having a strong offensive smell)

 Context examples 

A study of lemur scents conducted by researchers at Duke University finds that an individual's distinctive body odor reflects genetic differences in its immune system and that other lemurs can detect these differences by smell.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)