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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Perceptible to the sense of taste; having flavor.
  • adjective Having a strong pleasant flavor; savory.
  • adjective Pleasing to the mind; engaging.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor or relish; tasteful; savory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective tasty, flavoursome or savoury

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective full of flavor

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin sapidus, from sapere, to taste; see sep- in Indo-European roots.]

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