Sentence examples for special odour from inspiring English sources

He is accompanied by his servant Petruska, who brought in with his greatcoat "a special odour all his own that had also been imparted to the next thing he brought in, a sack containing the sundries of a manservant's toilet".

Flower colours thus seem to have been introduced as "advertisements" of the presence of nectar, and more specific nectar guides (such as patterns of dots or lines, contrasting colour patches, or special odour patterns) were introduced near the entrance to the flower, pointing the way to the nectar hidden within.

In general, individual honeybees from different species cannot be put together in one colony, because they have their own special odour, and are likely to attack and kill each other quickly [21].

The special odour and taste of honey make people be willing to enjoy it.

For parasitologists, the odour of a mangy animal is unique and distinguishable (even no specific study has been carried out in this direction), hence it seemed reasonable to figure out that dogs could be trained to recognize and localize the sources of such special odour under field conditions.

Insects employ ORs to recognize and discriminate various quantitative or special odours in their ecological niche.

At Parkway's newest hospital in Singapore, the muted wall colours evoke a hotel; a special scent is piped in to mask antiseptic odours.

They sniff for peculiar odours.

The euglossine male bees visit other nectar-producing flowers for their food, but, when the male bees visit the non-nectar-producing orchid flowers, they rub the surface of the lip with their front feet and collect in special tarsal brushes the odour that is produced there.

Unlike pharmaceutical substances, Chinese herbal medicines have special characteristics including texture, colour, odour and taste as the origin of these constituents are different.

The odour of Vegemite – so special, so unique – is still there, but more subtle.