scents
Because it is a word with a single syllable, scents is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofscents
- A distinctive odour or smell.
Example: "the scent of a skunk"
- An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
Example: "The dogs lost the scent."
- The sense of smell.
Example: "I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs."
- A perfume.
- Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
- Sense, perception.
- To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
Example: "The hounds scented the fox in the woods."
- To have a suspicion of.
Example: "I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me."
- To impart an odour to.
Example: "Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation."
- To have a smell.
- To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
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