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What does gustation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of tasting.
  2. The ability to taste flavors; the sense of taste.
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The organ of gustation is not, therefore, restricted to the production of that sense, but participates in the sense of touch.
Our sense of taste is a combination of many things – gustation, aroma, texture, temperature – to name just a few.
Recent findings on the sensitivity of primate olfaction and gustation to ethanol are consistent with this notion.
All animals and microorganisms such as bacteria exhibit this latter type of chemoreception, but the two commonly recognized chemosensory systems are the senses of taste, or gustation, and smell, or olfaction.
Bauer stated that the antennal flagella of carideans have abundant tactile and chemoreceptors, especially for gustation.
Peripheral and central structures involved in insect gustation.

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