gustatory

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My neighbors on my right and left being--the one a regular diner-out whose conversation was mostly gustatory, and the other a youth whose ideas never seemed to rise above the part of his hair or cut of his garments.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the sense of taste.

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  • It didn't taste too bad for whatever gustatory organs I had, and it made me remember, for short periods of time, what it was to be a human, and imagine that I could be human once again. —  Magazine - Future Orbits - [Vol 02] - Issue 03 - June-July 2002
  • The different sensory stimuli to which man reacts-tactual, visual, gustatory, auditory, and olfactory-are produced by vibratory variations in electrons and protons. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • Martin Amis offered me gustatory, sub-cultural, and class-obsessed tours of London in —  Baltimore City Paper
  • WGA was not detected in the parabrachial nucleus, or the gustatory cortex. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • That piece, "Consider the Lobster," must have taken years off the life of Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl: Wallace devoted most of the piece to the discomfiting question of whether it was "all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure," since, as he argues, "lobsters can suffer and would rather not." —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. from New Latin *gustatorius, from Latin gustare, taste: see gust.
 

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