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effluvium e-FLOO-vee-uhm noun a terrible smell; a bad influence; a noxious vapor 1967The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral DShe glanced at the dark cloud boiling over the mesa like the effluvium of some black-hearted volcano.1989Prison ShipYtram had little experience with alien life forms and the strange, pungent, and often wildly sharp odors, smells, gases, and effluvium their bodies cast off with alarming pressure and quantity.1994Snow Falling On CedarsThe gutters filled with rust-colored pine needles and the pungent effluvium of alder leaves…Labels: David Guterson, J. G. Ballard, Martin Caidin
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