Nasal vs Olfactory - What's the difference?
nasal | olfactory |
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the nose.
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(phonetics) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such as m'' and ''n .
(medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
(phonetics) A nasal vowel or consonant.
Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
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(anatomy) One of the nasal bones.
(zoology) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
Concerning the sense of smell.
An olfactory organ.
(chiefly, in the plural) The sense of smell.
As nouns the difference between nasal and olfactory
is that nasal is nasal consonant while olfactory is an olfactory organ.As an adjective olfactory is
concerning the sense of smell.nasal
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Adjective
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Noun
(en noun)- The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
- Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.