gustatory

[ guhs-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

Origin of gustatory

1675–85; <Latin gustā(re) to taste + -tory¹

His art collection includes a live tortoise covered in gems and a "flavor organ" on which he can play gustatory fugues.
Where Beauty Meets Decay | Blake Gopnik | May 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Traveling through Europe, blogger Molly Hannon pauses to reflect on the city of Dijon's legendary gustatory heritage.
Dijon: More Than Just Mustard | Molly Hannon | November 3, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
For the sense of sight cannot perceive taste, nor can color be apprehended by the gustatory sense.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac Husik
Other senses tend to associate themselves with the chromatic sense, for example, the stereognostic and gustatory senses.
Montessori Elementary Materials | Maria Montessori
The only motive for the act, on the part of the original “friends” is friendship, and the gustatory joy of the wedding feast.
Village Life in China | Arthur H. Smith

It is in these sensitive papill that the ramifications of the gustatory or tasting nerves terminate.
Popular Education | Ira Mayhew
Thus, a patient's horror of poison may have its first origin in some subjective gustatory sensation.
Illusions | James Sully

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