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:

    “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)

    “One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.”
    —Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)

    “It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)