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Definition of Inodorous
1. Adjective. Having no odor. "Odorless flowers"
Attributes: Aroma, Odor, Odour, Olfactory Property, Scent, Smell
Similar to: Non-aromatic, Scentless
Antonyms: Odorous
Definition of Inodorous
1. a. Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless.
Definition of Inodorous
1. Adjective. (archaic) Odourless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inodorous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inodorous
Literary usage of Inodorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1824)
"Odour of Hydrogen Gas extraneous, inodorous Hydrogen Gas. ... Perfectly inodorous
hydrogen gas may be obtained by putting an amalgam of potassium and ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"... externally of an ash-gray colour, thickly covered with short satiny hairs,
internally translucent, tough and horny, taste intensely bitter, inodorous. ..."
3. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"... whose festering corpse kept his silent and deserted wigwam inodorous company,
Philip's great triumverate had kept him company to the Happy Hunting- ..."
4. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"It is inodorous ; boils at 185°, giving oft' yellow vapours, which condense in
the form of a yellow sublimate ; the melted ..."
5. Our Arctic Province, Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1906)
"Its Sweet Flesh and inodorous Fat.—Not such Extensive Travellers as the Fur-seals.—The
Difficulty of Capturing Sea-lions.—How the Natives Corral them. ..."
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