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GUSTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
Example:
his cold deprived him of his sense of taste
Synonyms:
gustation; gustatory modality; sense of taste; taste
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("gustation" is a kind of...):
modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)
exteroception (sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body)
Derivation:
gustatorial; gustatory (of or relating to gustation)
