smell
verb (used with object)
to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of.
smellable
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a word derived from
smell.
Example Sentences
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Nighttime hygiene is discouraged; a freshened-up camper in a sleeping bag is yet another smellable.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the walls snow-shoes, fishing-lines, dried fish in smellable bunches, a portrait of the Okapi from Outing, and a musical clock that played with painful persistence the first three bars of "God Save the King."
From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson
In one it is revealed by one of our five senses, visible, tangible, smellable, tastable, or ponderable matter.
From Ancient and Modern Physics by Willson, Thomas E.
He was a thorough-going realist, living in a tangible, smellable world of reality, and he knew us for what we were—marauders, disturbers of the proper respectable peace of twentieth century farms.
From The Jervaise Comedy by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)
