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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents;
[syn: smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Olfaction \Ol*fac"tion\, n. [See Olfactory.] (Physiol.)
   The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory
   organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are
   perceived.
   [1913 Webster]