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• Taste — (or, more formally, gustation) is a form of direct chemoreception and is one of the traditional five senses. It refers to the ability to detect the flavor of substances such as food and poisons. In humans and many other vertebrate animals the… …   Wikipedia

• Taste — belongs to our chemical sensing system, or the chemosenses. The complicated process of tasting begins when molecules released by the substances stimulate special cells in the mouth or throat. These special sensory cells transmit messages through… …   Medical dictionary

• sour — sour, acid, acidulous, tart, dry mean having a taste devoid of sweetness. All but dry suggest the taste of lemons, vinegar, or of most unripe fruits. Sour and acid are often interchangeable, but sour is more likely to be chosen to describe… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• sour — [sour] adj. [ME soure < OE sur, akin to Ger sauer, ON sūrr < IE * suro , sour, salty > Latvian sũrs, salty, bitter] 1. having the sharp, acid taste of lemon juice, vinegar, green fruit, etc. 2. made acid or rank by or as by fermentation… …   English World dictionary

• taste — [tāst] vt. tasted, tasting [ME tasten < OFr taster, to handle, touch, taste < VL * tastare, prob. < * taxitare, freq. of L taxare, to feel, touch sharply, judge of, freq. of tangere: see TACT] 1. Obs. to test by touching 2. to test the… …   English World dictionary

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• sour — sau̇(ə)r adj causing, characterized by, or being the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids compare BITTER, SALT (2), SWEET sour·ness …   Medical dictionary

• Taste bud — Infobox Anatomy Name = Taste bud Latin = caliculus gustatorius GraySubject = 222 GrayPage = 991 Caption = Semidiagrammatic view of a portion of the mucous membrane of the tongue. Two fungiform papillæ are shown. On some of the filiform papillæ… …   Wikipedia

• sour — sour1 [sauə US saur] adj [: Old English; Origin: sur] 1.) having a sharp acid taste, like the taste of a ↑lemon or a fruit that is not ready to be eaten ≠ ↑sweet →↑bitter ▪ Rachel sampled the wine. It was sour. ▪ sour cherries →↑sweet and sour …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• sour — [[t]sa͟ʊ ə(r)[/t]] sours, souring, soured 1) ADJ GRADED Something that is sour has a sharp, unpleasant taste like the taste of a lemon. → See also sweet and sour The stewed apple was sour even with honey. Syn: bitter 2) ADJ Sour milk is milk that …   English dictionary

• sour — 1 adjective 1 having a sharp acid taste that stings your tongue, like the taste of a lemon: sour, tangy apples | Sprinkle a little sugar over the strawberries if they are sour. compare bitter 1 (4), sweet 1 (1) 2 milk or other food that is sour… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English