A yellow variety which stains water and has a faint odor is adulterated with the horned-poppy.
When exposed to air for extended periods of time, fats become rancid and develop an unpleasant taste and odor.
Butyric acid is responsible not only for the smell of rancid butter, but also contributes to the odor of sweat.
During scanning, volunteers pressed a computer key to indicate that they detected an odor.
At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor.
Removing manure from the building to an outdoor storage can also reduce odor and gas accumulations.
By the third day the acetous fermentation had begun in all of them, and in a few more days each emitted an offensive odor.
His wife likens the odor to burned toast, but he says it smells like a campfire.
Because a key ingredient of acetal is formaldehyde, acetal components left in a sealed container for a few weeks will emit a strong formaldehyde odor.
Its broad leaves and unpleasant odor, compared to the finely divided leaves and smaller umbels of water hemlock and water parsnip distinguish cow parsnip.
By adding large amounts of oxygen to the manure, naturally occurring bacteria will begin to break down the waste and reduce its odor in one to six months.
This is caused by odor masking, when one odorant overpowers the sensation of another.
As of 2011, the industry is conducting research on the causes of odor masking.
In the dried crude root, their phenolic aglycones are responsible for the typical odor reminiscent of methyl salicylate or anethole.
Another strategy is seen in the stinkhorns, a group of fungi with lively colors and putrid odor that attract insects to disperse their spores.
It has gray hair, and the fleece is sometimes sold with other peltries, but it is not worth much, although it has some odor.
Mixing garlic with milk in the mouth before swallowing reduced the odor better than drinking milk afterward.
Natural and synthetics are used for their different odor characteristics in perfumery.
All these techniques will, to a certain extent, distort the odor of the aromatic compounds obtained from the raw materials.
However, it is said that animals did not feed on him and his body produced no odor, and that the corpse caused fear and nightmares in the people.
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Males of the two species differ in that buck goats acquire a unique and strong odor during the rut, whereas rams do not.
Colonel Sanders, image forever accompanied odor of sacrificial meat.
On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
Sometimes the odor of the armpit may even become a kind of fetich which is craved for its own sake and in itself suffices to give pleasure.
The strong anise odor of finocchio repels many insects from other vegetables.
She was perfumed, and beside the wave of her perfume, Mendel perceived uneasily the heavy, goatish odor of Pavel's sweating body.
For the political right, naturally eager to put the left in bad odor, the naming frenzy was a bonanza.
Even though the Plot is never alluded to directly, its presence is everywhere in the play, like a pervasive odor.
Phosgene has the odor of new-mown hay and chlorine has a strong bleach or chlorine odor.
These scats are black and twisted and can be confused with those of the fox, except that they reputedly have a floral odor.
Government officials think a universal malodor, or offensive odor, might prove effective as a non-lethal weapon.
The odor of cold sweat in a coward's armpit would be the olfactory theme were this a smell-o-vision movie.
The Tranquility provides high-capacity absorbency to preserve skin integrity, provide odor control, and ensure dryness.
Activated carbon is an effective adsorbent for odor reduction because of functionality and porosity.
In Jack-in-the-pulpits, it is not known if the odor is released by the spadix.
And when sweat, especially from the apocrine glands, mixes with bacteria on the skin surface, the byproduct is body odor.
There was such a nice frosty, Octobery smell in the air, blent with the delightful odor of newly plowed fields.
I stepped inside and the odor of wacky tobaccy lingered in the air.
That's because people use their noses to sniff imaginary as well as real aromas, and the mere act of sniffing scentless air kick-starts odor perception, a new study finds.
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A queef is not, of course, flatulence, so technically it is not a fart either. It is air, not waste gases produced by digestion, so often there is no attendant odor.
The odor is best described as strongly penetrating, irritating, fatty, overpowering, currylike, heavy, spicy, warm, and persistent, even after drying out.
Each antennule sports thousands of hairlike odor sensors, which give the lobster an extraordinarily sensitive sense of smell by which to navigate.
Some breastfeeding mothers have found, after consuming garlic, that their babies can be slow to feed, and have noted a garlic odor coming from them.
According to their material safety data sheets, CFCs and HCFCs are colorless, volatile, toxic liquids and gases with a faintly sweet ethereal odor.
Now instead of a smell of Delight our Mandrakes afford a papaverous and unpleasant odor, whether in the leaf or apple, as is discoverable in their simplicity or mixture.
Significant differences, both in odor strength and in odor character, have been found between all enantiomeric pairs and are particularly large for the nootkatones.
Cellars, where the direct rays of the sun cannot enter, are often used as milk rooms, but there is always a cellary odor in them which impairs the flavor of the butter.
So far as the actual basis for this qualitative specificity is concerned, the odor really becomes specific but not nameably so, in terms of what one might call texture.
So in conversing with men, women, and children, I gradually found out that Tim Hibblethwaite was in bad odor, and that he held himself doggedly aloof from all.
It is a white crystalline powder with a weak sulfurous odor.
Aromatics, sometimes referred to as reodorants, are added to fabric sizing to disguise the glue or casein smell, leaving the product with a fine fresh odor.
Features that have been attributed to hellhounds include mangled black fur, glowing red eyes, super strength or speed, ghostly or phantom characteristics, and a foul odor.
They smelled the land before they saw it. A rich, dark odor of sweet earth, coming at them through a misty rain. Then seabirds appeared, crying and screeing.
The narrow, dark stairs are gaumy with paste, and everywhere open barrels of the mixture gave out the sickening, sour odor that is always in the nostrils of the workers.
Mr Al doesn't quite suit you... seems to elicit that used car dealer odor.

From eczema by the condition of the affected hair, the atrophic and scar-like areas, the odor, and the history.
It has no odor, and a starchy taste, followed by some acridity, but no bitterness.
It is not so warty and the odor is not nearly so strong as the amanita strobiliformis.
There was an overpowering odor of anaesthetics in the room although the windows had been thrown wide open.
Rankin followed him into the bedroom, which was filled with a strong odor of antiseptics.
Kenny sickened at the faint odor of antiseptics and softly closed the door.
The paper and the ink had a certain odor which was sweeter to me than the perfumes of Araby.
He caught the faint odor of bath salts rising from under the rounded neckline of her blouse.
There came from him an indescribable reek of tobacco, whisky, filthy clothes, and the beastlike odor of an unclean body.
A heavy odor, like bitter almond, creeps from the white bell-shaped blossoms of the daturas, and makes me feel sick and faint.
When he came within gunshot of the flock the smell of sheep effectually smothered the keen, tasty odor of black sage and juniper.
The air snapped and tingled with a shower of blue-red sparks, and the acrid odor of the released gases settled down upon us.
It was only contagious, he thought, in bad cases, when the stools have a cadaveric odor.
The names which connect this tree with sassafras, spice and cajeput are based on odor and taste.
The beds were not made, and a strong odor of valerian and camphor flooded the air.
In the air there was a faint odor of skins, dried herbs, sandalwood, and camphor.
They have a camphoraceous odor and bitter, aromatic taste, reminding one of that of Aristolochia Serpentaria.
It has a very agreeable aromatic odor, somewhat like camphor, and the taste is described as warm, bitterish and camphoraceous.
In some cases, the odor arising from caries is combined with that of the stomach.
In some cases the odor arising from carious teeth is combined with that of the stomach.
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The most usual and reliable tests of the quality of an otto are its odor, its congealing point, its crystallization.
It crisped and sparkled, and sent out a pungent odor, then turned and writhed between his fingers, like a living thing in pain.
Although the musk is probably distasteful to predators, repellent odor alone seems to be of doubtful value as a defense mechanism.
The water is perfectly clear, has a saltish taste, and at the spring is not unlike weak broth, though it has a disagreeable odor.
Reminded you, perhaps, of the faint odor of a cadaver far off?
There may be a loss of odor or they may have a cadaveric smell.
Presently the appetizing odor of the cooking reached the Bishop's nostrils, and he sniffed it eagerly.
The acrid odor of the atmosphere was already beginning to be disagreeable.
A few should be avoided because of their acrid taste or their strong odor.
But the later stools will again be thin and of cadaverous odor.
It has an odor similar to that of copaiba, is bitter and aromatic.
By dusting the feet with boric acid the odor will disappear.
The heated shells of these green unseasoned tenements gave out a pungent odor of scorching wood and resin.
It is limpid, like water, of a saltish taste, and without odor.
The cabin reeked of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts.
Well, then, I trust that you have no objection to tobacco-smoke, to the mild balsamic odor of the Eastern tobacco.
Its powder is a light red, and emits an argillaceous odor when wetted.
A moment after, the odor of alcohol scented the little cabin.
The odor of the balsam fir is drawn out and spread far by the heat.
They have a balsamic flavor, accompanied with a very agreeable odor.
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Dog and herder sniffed the evening air, sampling the new odor.
The sun was low in the west, and the breeze soft and languorous that came up from the south, charged with the seductive odor of the sea.
It excites no salivation, and leaves behind it no unpleasant, stale odor.
He tried once or twice, stammering and balking, to the annoyance of the judge, who was gasping from the odor of fertilizer.
The odor given off by the chicken is also an indication of freshness.
They were two or three prettily written letters, exhaling a faint odor of refinement and of the pressed flowers that peeped from between the loose leaves.
From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.
The odor of the canal was doubtless at the bottom of that aspiration and the breath of the garden, as I entered it, gave consistency to my purpose.

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