taste bud

taste bud

n.

Any of numerous spherical or ovoid clusters of receptor cells found mainly in the epithelium of the tongue and constituting the end organs of the sense of taste.

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taste bud

Noun

any of the cells on the surface of the tongue, by means of which the sensation of taste is experienced

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taste bud  (tst) Any of numerous sense organs in most vertebrate animals that are specialized to detect taste. Taste buds are sensitive to four types of taste: sweet, sour, salty, or bitter. In land vertebrates, the taste buds are found on the surface of the tongue. Fish have taste buds all over their bodies.

taste bud The human tongue can detect four distinct tastes.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

taste bud - an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue gustatory organ, tastebud neuroepithelium - epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve endings chemoreceptor - a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli glossa, lingua, tongue, clapper - a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity epiglottis - a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing gustatory cell, taste cell - an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve palate, roof of the mouth - the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities pharynx, throat - the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone

Translations

taste bud n → papila gustativa or del gusto

taste bud n → papille f

taste bud n → papilla gustativa