Search Result for "gustation":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth;
- Example: "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"
[syn: taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gustation \Gus*ta"tion\, n. [L. gustatio: cf. F. gustation.] The act of tasting. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] gustative
