单词 | anosmatic |
释义 | anosmaticadj. Zool. Lacking olfactory organs and, consequently, a sense of smell. Also, = anosmic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having a snout > lacking olfactory organs anosmatic1890 anosmic1973 1890 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 25 106 He [sc. Broca] has classified the Mammalia, in relation to the magnitude of their olfactory apparatus, into two groups: osmatic mammals..and anosmatic mammals. 1970 W. B. Yapp Introd. Animal Physiol. (ed. 3) vi. 206 A few [mammals], such as the toothed whales, have no olfactory organ and are termed anosmatic. 1978 Jrnl. Compar. Physiol. A. 128 303/1 Pigeons made anosmatic by inserting plastic tubes in their nostrils were tested from familiar and unfamiliar release sites. 1986 Anat. & Embryol. 173 291/2 In toothed whales and dolphins, which are anosmatic animals, the vomeronasal organ does not occur at all. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < adj.1890 |
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