Thesaurus / olfactory
other words for olfactory
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- 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
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The brain, drawing on memory, recognizes patterns in the chemical composition of the olfactory stimulus.
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As I explain in the episode, the olfactory explanation doesn’t actually pass the sniff test—which led me to wonder why a particular vehicle might experience widespread yellow sac infestations.
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While linearity doesn’t mean the olfactory code is easily solvable, it does provide a framework for neuroscientists to further work on and potentially more easily understand.
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Neuroscientist Dima Rinberg of New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and colleagues targeted nerve cells in mice’s olfactory bulbs.
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That’s because, as far as neurons go, olfactory receptor neurons are unusual — they live outside of the brain, but keep one foot inside it.
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It was now acting and re-acting on the lining of the serenader's olfactory organ in a manner to threaten final decapitation.
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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.
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The anterior and larger division of the fore-brain forms the rudiment of the cerebral hemispheres and olfactory lobes.
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On the ventral face of the integument covering these are two oval depressions, the rudimentary olfactory sacs.
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WORDS RELATED TO OLFACTORY
- aromatic
- balmy
- dank
- effluvious
- fetid
- flavorsome
- flowery
- foul
- fragrant
- heady
- honeyed
- loud
- malodorous
- mephitic
- miasmic
- moldy
- musty
- nauseous
- odoriferant
- odoriferous
- offensive
- olfactive
- olfactory
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.