Taste

Taste

Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is one of the five traditional senses. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with receptors of taste buds.

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Famous quotes containing the word taste:

    “Comforted
    a solace of ripe plums
    seeming to fill the air
    They taste good to her”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “After mist has wrapped us again
    in fine wool, may the taste of salt
    recall to us the great depths about us.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)