inodorous

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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

Next to climate, culture and soil modify plants to a singular degree: flowers which yield a powerful perfume in some latitudes, are inodorous in others; and, according to climate, their aroma is pleasant or distressing.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

The features were not altered, and the cavities were filled with a black, hard, and inodorous resinous substance.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Diazomethane is a yellow inodorous gas, very poisonous and corrosive.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

The habits of D�dalea are very much the same as Trametes, but they are inodorous.

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