Adjective: camphrous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more camphrous |
| Superlative | most camphrous |
Sample Sentences
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…aromatic, including as sub-classes camphrous, herbaceous, anisic and thymic, citronous, and the bitter almond group… [1923, Dan McKenzie, “Sense of Olfaction in Lower Animals”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., page 102:]
Adjectives inflected like camphrous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From camphor + -ous.