Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being smelled.

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  • adjective That can be detected by smell.

Etymologies

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smell +‎ -able

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Examples

  • (for these perfumes might very well exist without being detected by man) some of the perfumes produced by butterflies are "smellable" by man.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • It had trees, a few white adobe buildings that were actually pink from the setting sun, and a narrow stream with real, smellable water in it.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • It had trees, a few white adobe buildings that were actually pink from the setting sun, and a narrow stream with real, smellable water in it.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • It had trees, a few white adobe buildings that were actually pink from the setting sun, and a narrow stream with real, smellable water in it.

    To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010

  • We would have dinner, walk another 20 minutes, bear bag everything smellable, and hang-cache that another 200 yards down the trail.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Monday Bear Blogging: 2009

  • We would have dinner, walk another 20 minutes, bear bag everything smellable, and hang-cache that another 200 yards down the trail.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Monday Bear Blogging: 2009

  • Tuberose must be given credit, because it certainly tries to be smellable, to soften the sharp corners and to add much-needed creaminess to the very angular composition, but ultimately it fails, defeated by the dark, harsh woods.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Marina Geigert 2007

  • I see you in the looking-glass of my own facetious and song-recalling memory -- but I should wish to see you in the real, visible, palpable, smellable beauty of your own person, standing before me in my own house, at my own fireside, in all the halo of your poetical radiance!

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • He was a thorough-going realist, living in a tangible, smellable world of reality, and he knew us for what we were -- marauders, disturbers of the proper respectable peace of twentieth century farms.

    The Jervaise Comedy 1910

  • On the walls snow-shoes, fishing-lines, dried fish in smellable bunches, a portrait of the Okapi from Outing, and a musical clock that played with painful persistence the first three bars of "God Save the King."

    The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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