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olfactory

[ol-fak-tuh-ree, -tree, ohl-] / ɒlˈfæk tə ri, -tri, oʊl- /




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Analog Devices built a machine that used a new type of chemical sensor developed in-house to capture olfactory data from the grape juice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

The researchers also showed that this map in the nose aligns with corresponding maps in the olfactory bulb of the brain.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 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

This happened often enough that it interrupted the proper workings of Mig’s olfactory senses.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo

“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

He scented a trade afar off, and his organs of taste, sympathizing with his olfactories, gave out that token of satisfaction.

From The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

After it was over, and the ship's company had gone to dinner, they wished to smoke a cigar, the whiffs of Jack's pipe having reached their olfactories.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray

Old sailors who have cruised with cargoes of cattle, of green hides, and of guano, say that nothing that ever offended the olfactories of man equals the stench of a right-whaler on her homeward voyage.

From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

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


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