inodorous
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It is absolutely white, inodorous, and not appreciably bitter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
No blight, no vileness, no inodorous breath, but only the dreamlit mist and the laden trees—the Orient of our long ago.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
Quinine, kwin′ēn, ki-nēn′, or kwī′nīn, n. a colourless, inodorous, and very bitter alkaloid, obtained from the bark of the Cinchona tree, its salts used for agues and fevers.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
There is perhaps then no body which is perfectly inodorous, or entirely destitute of smell: for those which have been generally accounted such, may be rendered odorous by some of the methods I have mentioned.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett
Metals which appear nearly inodorous, excite a sensation of smell by friction, particularly lead, tin, iron, and copper.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett
