inodorous

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There is perhaps no body so hard, compact, and apparently inodorous, as to be absolutely incapable of exciting smell by proper methods: two pieces of flint rubbed together, produce a very perceptible smell.

From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas

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

The plant is quite compact, inodorous, becoming entirely black with age.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Flowers in a short, rather compact, upright raceme, rose-colored and inodorous.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Fibrin is of a whitish color, inodorous, and insoluble in cold water.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin