olfactory
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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 initial goal is to create a diagnostic test to measure olfactory loss—a marker of Covid-19 and other conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Does the olfactory exhilaration also enhance play-calling, amplifying one’s grasp of X’s and O’s?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026
Village dogs showed enriched wolf ancestry in olfactory receptor genes, which may support their need to locate human food waste.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2025
A rabbit, it has been calculated, has something like 100 million olfactory receptors.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
“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
Perfume from oleander hedges smote softly the olfactories of Brown; the southern whip-poor-wills' hurried whisper thrilled the darkness with a deeper mystery.
From Quick Action by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
According to his own account, no nosegay was ever more fragrant to his olfactories than was the smell of fresh fish in the frying pan.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
He's more disagreeable to the olfactories than old John Jacob Astor's hide house, from whose effluvia sprung the master spirits of Gotham's Four Hundred.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
Vocabulary lists containing olfactory
Fahrenheit 451
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The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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100 Great Words from "Fahrenheit 451" -- Part I Vocabulary
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