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smell-alike

smell-alike noun: something that smells like something else.

Noun

smell-alike (plural smell-alikes)

  1. (rare) Something that smells like something else.
    • […] chamomile and apples? Those particular smellalikes tested our imagination. Yet much of what he said was right on the mark. The scent of sweet peas, for instance, does indeed favor that of wisteria.1989, Rayford Clayton Reddell, Robert Galyean, Growing Fragrant Plants, page 13
    • In L'Oréal v. Belure, the dispute concerned marketing of so-called smell-alikes.2020, Irene Calboli, Jane C. Ginsburg, The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law

Forms of smell-alike

pluralsmell-alikes

Origin of smell-alike

From smell + alike, perhaps modelled on lookalike.

Questions about smell-alike

What does smell-alike mean?
Smell-alike means something that smells like something else.
What part of speech is smell-alike?
Smell-alike is a noun.
What is the plural of smell-alike?
The plural of smell-alike is smell-alikes.

Words near smell-alike in the dictionary

  1. smell traps
  2. smell up
  3. smell what someone is stepping in
  4. smell ya later
  5. smell you later
  6. smell-alike
  7. smell-alikes
  8. smell-brain
  9. smell-feast
  10. smell-feasts
  11. smell-o-meter

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