noun

• The action or faculty of tasting.

  ‘Recent findings on the sensitivity of primate olfaction and gustation to ethanol are consistent with this notion.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The receptors involved in gustation are found in specialized ‘end-organs’ called taste buds.’
  • ‘However, gustation refers only to the sensations of sweet, sour, salty, savory, and bitter, and thus the pleasant ‘taste’ to which we refer is actually a pleasant odor sensed retronasally.’
  • ‘To taste an object it must be dissolved in the process of gustation in order for the taste buds to experience a flavour and for the throat to swallow what was the intact object.’
  • ‘This suggests that the two genes are expressed in cells that are important for gustation.’