单词 | osmology |
释义 | > as lemmasosmology osmology n. Brit. /ɒzˈmɒlədʒi/ , U.S. /ɑzˈmɑlədʒi/ [compare French osmologie (1845); R. G. Mayne gives a Latin form osmologia (see quot. 1857)] †(a) a treatise on odours; (b) the study of odours.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > study or measurement of osphresiology1842 osmology1857 odorimetry1898 olfactometry1898 vapography1898 osmics1922 olfactronics1964 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Osmologia,..term for a treatise on odours: osmology. 1889 Universal Rev. Mar. 364 Literature is much more than osmology, and the world contains something beyond and above its social sewers. 1899 Q. Rev. July 90 A treatise..on ‘monumental physiology, archaeological symbolism, mystical osmology’, for the author sees hidden meanings in smells. 1948 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1994) II. 1345 There will be Chairs of osmology in our universities, Ardent investigators searching out..The departing smells of the countryside. < as lemmas |
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