vocabulary

 Here's a vocabulary quiz to challenge those sleepy brain cells.  What does 'macrosmatic' mean?  If you guessed 'an automatic macaroni making machine' you guessed wrong, although it seemed perfectly reasonable to me.  Actually, macrosmatic is an adjective which means having a highly developed sense of smell.  Dogs can be described as macrosmatic and I do believe that.  When we used to travel in our VW bus with our two children and two dogs the male dog's very favorite place to ride was on my lap, when I was in the front passenger seat, with his nose pressed against the air vent.  No AC in that old bus and screens on the windows so this was one of the few ways for the dogs to whiff the great outdoors.  I'm not sure he appreciated the vistas of mountains, canyons, and oceans but (if he could have talked) he could have identified every exotic and mysterious scent from coast to coast.  He was a well traveled dog.