Sense+of+taste

  • 131gustatory modality — noun 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 • Derivationally related forms: ↑gustatory (for: ↑ …

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  • 132insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …

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