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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the antennary sense in certain insects, such as the ants, in which a sense of touch or contact is combined with an olfactory sense.
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- adjective chemistry Describing, or affected by, the
orientation ofmolecules
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yarb commented on the word topochemical
It must be a sense of smell whose range and delicacy we, with our extremely poor olfactory equipment, can but dimly imagine, intermingled inextricably with a sense of tactile form, much as the senses of smell and taste are linked for us. This sense has been called the "topochemical" or "contact-odor" one, and the uses which it serves are immensely varied.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 60
December 5, 2008