sense of taste
the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth - his cold deprived him of his sense of taste • Syn: taste, gustation, gustatory modality • Derivationally related forms: gustatory (for: gustation), gustatorial (for: gustation), tasty (for: taste), taste (for: taste) • Hypernyms: modality, sense modality, sensory system, exteroception
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