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Scentless

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Adjective

1. scentless

lacking the sense of smell

2. scentless

emitting or holding no odor

Example Sentences:
'scentless wisps of straw'
'a scentless stretch of rocky ground'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scentless

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noun
1. 
a distinctive smell, esp a pleasant one
2. 
a smell left in passing, by which a person or animal may be traced
3. 
a trail, clue, or guide
4. 
an instinctive ability for finding out or detecting
5.  another word (esp Brit) for perfume
verb
6. (transitive)
to recognize or be aware of by or as if by the smell
7. (transitive)
to have a suspicion of; detect
I scent foul play
8. (transitive)
to fill with odour or fragrance
9. (intransitive)
(of hounds, etc) to hunt by the sense of smell
10. 
to smell (at)
the dog scented the air

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Scentless

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verb transitive
1. 
to smell; perceive by the olfactory sense
2. 
to get a hint or inkling of; suspect
to scent trouble
3. 
to fill with an odor; give fragrance to; perfume
verb intransitive
4. 
to hunt by the sense of smell
noun
5. 
a smell; odor
6. 
the sense of smell
7. 
a manufactured fluid preparation used to give fragrance; perfume
8. 
an odor left by an animal, by which it is tracked in hunting
9. 
a track followed in hunting
10. 
any clue by which something is followed or detected
11. 
an intuitive capacity for discovering or detecting
a scent for news

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Scentless

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n.
1. A distinctive, often agreeable odor. See Synonyms at fragrance, smell.
2. A perfume: an expensive French scent.
3. An odor left by the passing of an animal.
4. The trail of a hunted animal or fugitive: The hounds are on the scent.
5. The sense of smell: a bear's keen scent.
6. A hint of something imminent; a suggestion: caught the scent of a reconciliation.
v. scent·ed, scent·ing, scents
v.tr.
1. To perceive or identify by the sense of smell: dogs scenting their prey.
2. To suspect or detect: scented danger.
3. To fill with a pleasant odor; perfume: when blossoms scent the air.
v.intr.
To hunt prey by means of the sense of smell. Used of hounds.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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