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olfactory
adjective as in odorous
Weak matches
- aromatic
- balmy
- dank
- effluvious
- fetid
- flavorsome
- flowery
- foul
- fragrant
- heady
- honeyed
- loud
- malodorous
- mephitic
- miasmic
- moldy
- musty
- nauseous
- odoriferant
- odoriferous
- offensive
- olfactive
- perfumatory
- perfumed
- perfumy
- pungent
- putrid
- redolent
- reeking
- rotten
- savorous
- savory
- scent-laden
- scented
- scentful
- skunky
- smelly
- spicy
- stagnant
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- sweet
- sweet-scented
- sweet-smelling
- tumaceous
- unsavory
- whiffy
adjective as in sensory
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Example Sentences
Olfactory art, Burr admits, has been “completely and aggressively and successfully colonized by commercial interests.”
And then there are all the “olfactory landmarks” that live with us day to day, in laundry soaps and baby powder and new cars.
Our olfactory systems have long regarded pungency as not just innocuous but in fact pleasing.
It was now acting and re-acting on the lining of the serenader's olfactory organ in a manner to threaten final decapitation.
Some collectors, with indifferent olfactory sense, moisten the cork of their boxes with creosote.
This may perhaps be called the olfactory nerve, though clearly of a different character to the other nerves.
The anterior and larger division of the fore-brain forms the rudiment of the cerebral hemispheres and olfactory lobes.
On the ventral face of the integument covering these are two oval depressions, the rudimentary olfactory sacs.
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On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to olfactory, such as: aromatic, balmy, dank, effluvious, fetid, and flavorsome.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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