odour

Definitions

Examples

• Colorectal cancer screening with odour material by canine scent detection.

• It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay.

• It curled and twisted in the embers as if it had been a living thing; a puff of smoke, a pungent odour, and it was gone.

• A painful odour arose in spite of the aromatic plants with which it was covered.

• The kolim-tree diffuses an excessively strong odour, similar to that of onions, indicating its site at some distance off.

• With his evasive singularity was mingled a certain exotic odour like the distant perfume of a country well loved of the sun.

• It has the odour of thyme, is sparingly soluble in water, but very soluble in alcohol, ether and in alkaline solutions.