Smell
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| - | # A [[sensation]], pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying [[airborne]] [[molecule]]s of a substance. | + | '''Smell''' may refer to: |
| - | #: ''I love the '''smell''' of fresh bread.'' | + | |
| - | # {{physiology}} The [[sense]] that detects [[smell]]s. | + | |
| - | ====Synonyms==== | + | * [[Olfaction]], sense of smell, the ability of humans and other animals to perceive odors |
| - | * (''sensation''): | + | * [[Odor]], the percept resultant from the sense of smell. The environmental stimulus which gives rise to a 'smell' which is made up of numerous monomolecular odorants |
| - | ** (''pleasant''): [[aroma]], [[fragrance]], [[odor]]/[[odour]], [[scent]] | + | * Smell is like taste and is a chemical sense detected by sensory cells called [[chemoreceptors]]. |
| - | ** (''unpleasant''): odor/odour, [[niff]] (''informal''), [[pong]] (''informal''), [[reek]], [[stench]], [[stink]], [[whiff]] (''informal'') | + | |
| - | * (''sense''): [[olfaction]] (''in technical use''), [[sense of smell]] | + | |
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Smell may refer to:
- Olfaction, sense of smell, the ability of humans and other animals to perceive odors
- Odor, the percept resultant from the sense of smell. The environmental stimulus which gives rise to a 'smell' which is made up of numerous monomolecular odorants
- Smell is like taste and is a chemical sense detected by sensory cells called chemoreceptors.
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