Crossword clues for gustatory
gustatory
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.
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
a. Of, or relating to, the sense of taste.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to gustation [syn: gustative, gustatorial]
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.