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taste bud
noun
- one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
taste bud
noun
- any of the elevated oval-shaped sensory end organs on the surface of the tongue, by means of which the sensation of taste is experienced
taste bud
/ tāst /
- Any of numerous sense organs in most vertebrate animals that are specialized to detect taste. Taste buds are sensitive to four types of taste: sweet, sour, salty, or bitter. In land vertebrates, the taste buds are found on the surface of the tongue. Fish have taste buds all over their bodies.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of taste bud1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
Amongst anthropological jargon, there is little mention of the taste bud and its evolution.
From The Daily Beast
Each taste bud consists of a collection of spindle-shaped neurones, each cell tipped at its outer end with a hairlike projection.
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And every taste bud on the dead flesh was tipped with that white stuff that gets in your mouth when your bowels are upset.
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Anchoring herself by magnetic processes, she began to weave the atmosphere delicately with her taste-bud tendrils.
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