olfactory organ

1. 1.

   the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals

   “he has a cold in the nose”

   Synonymsnose

   Broaderchemoreceptor

   Narrowersnoutbeakconkhawk noseproboscispug noseRoman nose

   Part offaceupper respiratory tract

   Partsturbinate boneethmoidal arterynasal cavityinternasal suturebridgenostril

Questions about olfactory organ

What does olfactory organ mean?

olfactory organ means "the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals".

What is another word for olfactory organ?

Close synonyms include nose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is olfactory organ a common word?

olfactory organ 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.