sense of taste

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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"

gustation, gustatory modality, taste

sense modality, sensory system, modality - a particular sense

exteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body

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The least developed of all in Tarzan was the sense of taste, for he could eat luscious fruits, or raw flesh, long buried with almost equal appreciation; but in that he differed but slightly from more civilized epicures.

Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

I have been thrilled to think that I owed a mental perception to the commonly gross sense of taste, that I have been inspired through the palate, that some berries which I had eaten on a hillside had fed my genius.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

Light of head with want of sleep and want of food (his appetite, and even his sense of taste, having forsaken him), he had been two or three times conscious, in the night, of going astray.

Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context

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