empyreuma
/ (ˌɛmpɪˈruːmə) /
noun plural -mata (-mətə)
the smell and taste associated with burning vegetable and animal matter
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Word Origin for empyreuma
C17: from Greek, from empureuein to set on fire
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Example sentences from the Web for empyreuma
Its colour is yellow, and it smells and tastes a little of the empyreuma, occasioned by torrefying the Yelks.
Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed.|Pierre Joseph MacquerEmpyreuma, the smell arising from organic matter when subjected to the action of fire, but not enough to carbonize it entirely.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|VariousEmpyreuma, em-pir-ū′ma, n. the burned smell and acrid taste which result when vegetable or animal substances are burned:—pl.