gustatory

[ guhs-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]
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adjective
  1. of or relating to taste or tasting.

Origin of gustatory

1
1675–85; <Latin gustā(re) to taste + -tory1

Other words from gustatory

  • gus·ta·to·ri·ly, adverb
  • un·gus·ta·to·ry, adjective

Words Nearby gustatory

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How to use gustatory in a sentence

  • Traveling through Europe, blogger Molly Hannon pauses to reflect on the city of Dijon's legendary gustatory heritage.

    Dijon: More Than Just Mustard | Molly Hannon | November 3, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • For the sense of sight cannot perceive taste, nor can color be apprehended by the gustatory sense.

  • Other senses tend to associate themselves with the chromatic sense, for example, the stereognostic and gustatory senses.

  • The only motive for the act, on the part of the original “friends” is friendship, and the gustatory joy of the wedding feast.

    Village Life in China | Arthur H. Smith
  • It is in these sensitive papill that the ramifications of the gustatory or tasting nerves terminate.

    Popular Education | Ira Mayhew
  • Thus, a patient's horror of poison may have its first origin in some subjective gustatory sensation.

    Illusions | James Sully