inodorous

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The true oil of coffee has been investigated to a fair degree and has been found to be inodorous when purified.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

It is absolutely white, inodorous, and not appreciably bitter.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

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

These are small, very regular, and inodorous plants.

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

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