单词 | olfactor |
释义 | olfactorn. A nose; an organ of smell; (also) a person who perceives smells. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > one who exercises smeller1519 venter1611 olfactor1829 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 276 And if thy nose..were anything more than the ghost of an olfactor, I would offer thee a pinch [of snuff]. 1873 Overland Monthly Dec. 584/2 What a sorry time we should have of it, were facial critics and artists..to sit in judgment severe upon every unfortunate olfactor that deviated..from conventional size! 1927 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 13 374 The excision of the embryonic eye and olfactor organ [in anurans] usually causes no morphological change in the central nervous system. 2002 City Jrnl. (N.Y.) (Nexis) Summer The smell of urine is in the nose of the olfactor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1829 |
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