flavorless
Variant of flavor
fla·vor (flā′vər)
noun
- Archaic an odor; smell; aroma
- that quality of a substance that is a mixing of its characteristic taste and smell
- taste in general a soup lacking flavor
- any substance added to a food, medicine, etc. to give it a particular taste; flavoring
- the characteristic quality of something; distinctive nature the flavor of the city
- Particle Physics any of the six basic types of quarks or leptons: down quark, up quark, charmed quark, strange quark, top quark, and bottom quark are the names used by physicists to distinguish the six types
Etymology: ME flavour, an odor, altered (by analogy with savour, savor) < OFr flaur < VL *flator, odor < L flatare, to blow, freq. of flare, blow (see blast), prob. infl. by foetor, foul odor
transitive verb
Related Forms:
- flavorless fla′·vor·less adjective
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