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scentless

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scent  (snt)
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.
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 as if by smelling: 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.

[Middle English sent, from senten, to scent, from Old French sentir, from Latin sentre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]

scentless adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.scentless - lacking the sense of smell
scented - having the sense of smell; "keen-scented hounds"
2.scentless - emitting or holding no odor; "scentless wisps of straw"; "a scentless stretch of rocky ground"
inodorous, odorless, odourless - having no odor; "odorless gas"; "odorless flowers"
Translations
scentless [ˈsentlɪs] ADJinodoro


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But all this is quite different from a South Sea Sperm Whaler; which in a voyage of four years perhaps, after completely filling her hold with oil, does not, perhaps, consume fifty days in the business of boiling out; and in the state that it is casked, the oil is nearly scentless.
The rose of love made the blossom of friendship pale and scentless by contrast.
The largest was a regular hothouse bouquet, of tea-rosebuds, scentless heath, and smilax; the second was just a handful of sweet-peas and mignonette, with a few cheerful pansies, and one fragrant little rose in the middle; the third, a small posy of scarlet verbenas, white feverfew, and green leaves.
 
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