Definitions for olfactory

olfactory ol·fac·to·ry

Spelling: [ol-fak-tuh-ree, -tree, ohl-]
IPA: /ɒlˈfæk tə ri, -tri, oʊl-/

Olfactory is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in olfactory (acfloorty).

Definitions for olfactory

adjective

  1. of or relating to the sense of smell:

noun

  1. Usually, olfactories. an olfactory organ.
  2. olfactory nerve.

Origin of olfactory

1650-60; Latin olfactōrius, equivalent to olfac(ere) to smell at, sniff (ol(ēre) to smell (akin to odor) + facere to make, do) + -tōrius -tory

Examples for olfactory

A strong odour of tobacco was wafted to his olfactory sense.

Their olfactory passage, like that of the Palostraca, must have been ventral.

olfactory art, Burr admits, has been “completely and aggressively and successfully colonized by commercial interests.”

What, then, represents the olfactory antenn in the scorpions?

The brain proper, from which arise only the olfactory and optic nerves.

Do odors impress some olfactory centre with images of the thing emitting them?

I do not know, although I assert that they are not olfactory organs.

And then there are all the “olfactory landmarks” that live with us day to day, in laundry soaps and baby powder and new cars.

The olfactory nerve of the nation never scented their existence.

Our olfactory systems have long regarded pungency as not just innocuous but in fact pleasing.

Word Value for olfactory
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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