gustation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

gustation
    n 1: the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and
         salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of
         his sense of taste" [syn: {taste}, {gustation}, {sense of
         taste}, {gustatory modality}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gustation \Gus*ta"tion\, n. [L. gustatio: cf. F. gustation.]
   The act of tasting. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
   [1913 Webster] gustative

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