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Flavorous

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fla·vor  (flvr)
n.
1. Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon. See Synonyms at taste.
2. A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing: "What matters in literature . . . is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or color of a particular human suffering" Harold Bloom.
3. A flavoring: contains no artificial flavors.
4. Archaic Aroma; fragrance.
tr.v. fla·vored, fla·vor·ing, fla·vors
To give flavor to.

[Middle English flavour, aroma, from Old French flaor, from Vulgar Latin *fltor, from Latin flre, to blow; see bhl- in Indo-European roots.]

flavor·er n.
flavor·less adj.
flavor·ous (-s), flavor·some (-sm) adj.
flavor·y adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.flavorous - full of flavor
tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel"


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