inodorous
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There is perhaps then no body which is perfectly inodorous, or entirely destitute of smell: for those which have been generally accounted such, may be rendered odorous by some of the methods I have mentioned.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
But the polygala is quite inodorous, while the guaco gives forth a strong aromatic smell, resembling valerian.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
The features were not altered, and the cavities were filled with a black, hard, and inodorous resinous substance.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Plant inodorous, 1-flowered; calyx of 2–4 irregular scales or bracts; anthers transverse, opening equally by 2 chinks; style short and thick.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
