olfactory

Pigeons "have an extremely sophisticated olfactory system, so that they can smell grass seed when it's being sown," said Davis.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Mice have about 20 million olfactory neurons, each expressing one of more than a thousand receptor types.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2026

Then the team hopes to treat the problem by placing sensor chips in the patient’s olfactory tissue to help preserve or restore scent perception.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

When I hear the word potluck, I am transported, with a kind of olfactory immediacy, to the basement of my grandmother’s church.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

It came to my olfactory sense, full and fresh, overwhelming: the smell of vegetation.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

“Thank God my moustache filters out some of the stench. My olfactories are already beginning to send out distress signals.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

The whole process of rendering menhaden into oil is less offensive to the olfactories than might be supposed.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

Any person of sensitive olfactories would have halted in the doorway; but I elbowed through the woolly gathering, and followed Frank and Selma to the family pew.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

A stable is their delight, almost their home, and their olfactories are refreshed by nothing so much as by the smell of old litter, to which attar of roses is assafoetida in comparison.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various

Having keen olfactories, they smelt the cooking of dainty viands from afar.

From The Woman's Bible by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady