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noun the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵews-der. Latin gustō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin gustatio, gustationisbor. English gustation Borrowed from Latin gustatio, gustationis.
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