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/sɛns əv teɪst/ Listen

Sense of taste

noun

The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth. Synonyms: gustation, gustatory modality, taste.

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... bones help form a number of cavities which contain most important and vital organs. The two deep, cup-like sockets, called the orbits, contain the organs of sight. In the cavities of the nose is located the sense of smell, while the buccal cavity, or mouth, is the site of the sense of taste, and plays besides an important part in the first act of digestion and in the function ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

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... all in Tarzan was the sense of taste, for he could eat luscious fruits, or raw flesh, long buried with almost equal appreciation; but in that he differed but ...

— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Words linked to "Sense of taste" : sensory system, taste, sense modality, exteroception, modality