Usually means: Scent produced when rain meets soil.
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  1. petrichor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. petrichor: Wiktionary
  3. Petrichor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. petrichor: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  5. Petrichor: World Wide Words
  6. petrichor: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (petrichor)

noun:  The distinctive scent, caused by geosmin, which accompanies the first rain after a long, warm, dry spell.
noun:  The yellow organic oil that yields this scent.

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