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Taste-related
Answer for the clue "Taste-related ", 9 letters:
gustatory
Alternative clues for the word gustatory
Word definitions for gustatory in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to gustation [syn: gustative , gustatorial ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from Latin gustatus "sense of taste; a taste," noun use of past participle of gustare "to taste" (see gusto ) + -ory .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to, the sense of taste.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gustatory \Gust"a*to*ry\, a. Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.
Usage examples of gustatory.
The act of eating, however, with all its gustatory noises, the stinking belch that filled the cavern, the rubbing of the behemothian stomach-all this, all at once, horrifying and sickening both.
As brain and nerves adjusted and endocrines responded, the primitive centers — gustatory, splanchnic, olfactory — grew active, too.
His eyes glazed in a familiar fashion, and Jerry, ever a man of action, ignored his burns and bruises and pulled Sally down into the seat next to him and got his arm around her and nibbled his way up her neck to her mouth and was putting all of him into a gustatory soul kiss when Chuck snapped his fingers and rejoined them, too carried away by his new idea to notice the rapid pulling away, straightening of clothing and wiping of chins.
Atrophy of the gustatory sense or anaesthesia of the stomach lining, or something.