gustatory

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈɡʌstəˌtɔɹi/(US)
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/ˈɡʌstəˌtɔɹi/(US) · /ˈɡʌstətəɹi/(UK) · /ˈɡʌstətɹi/(UK)

Definition of gustatory

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of, or relating to, the sense of taste.
    “WHERE TO DINE—Well, Mary Ward, our courageous gustatory investigatress, has finally completed her rounds of the eateries and, with her last despairing effort, dashed off this report on the road houses: […]”
    “The point, Goldstein discovered through a lot of long days hanging out in parking lots, is that tailgating — the gustatory madness, the multigenerational camaraderie, the decked-out vans — is as essential a part of football as the game itself.”

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Etymology

From Latin gustātus, participle of gustō (“to taste”), + -ory.

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