olfactory bulb

1. 1.

   one of two enlargements at the terminus of the olfactory nerve at the base of the brain just above the nasal cavities

   Broaderneural structure

   Part ofrhinencephalon

Questions about olfactory bulb

What does olfactory bulb mean?

olfactory bulb means "one of two enlargements at the terminus of the olfactory nerve at the base of the brain just above the nasal cavities".

Is olfactory bulb a common word?

olfactory bulb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.