Smellscape

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of odourscape.

    "Truffles must be pungent enough for their scent to penetrate the layers of soil and enter the air, distinctive enough for an animal to take note amid the ambient smellscape, and delicious enough for that animal to seek it out, dig it up and eat it."

Example

More examples

"Truffles must be pungent enough for their scent to penetrate the layers of soil and enter the air, distinctive enough for an animal to take note amid the ambient smellscape, and delicious enough for that animal to seek it out, dig it up and eat it."

Etymology

From smell + -scape.

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