🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

ペトリコール

Pronunciation / Transliteration: petorikōru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Petrichor/ˈpɛt.rɪ.kɔːr/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"夏の雨が降ったあと、心地よいペトリコールの香りが漂った。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A pleasant, distinctive smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.

    "A distinct petrichor rose from the dry pavement as the summer storm finally broke."
  2. 2

    The earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil.

    "Walking through the pine forest after the downpour, she deeply inhaled the rich petrichor."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in 1964 by Australian researchers Richard Thomas Bear and Isabel Joy Bear for a scientific paper in the journal Nature. The term is derived from the Greek petra meaning 'stone' + ichor, the mythological fluid that flows in the veins of the gods.

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