scentlessness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]scentlessness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being scentless.
- 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 221:
- It must be, I think, that Nature has endowed the young of ground-nesting birds with a scentlessness which is a form of negative protection from their enemies - if one may use such a definition.