Word of the Day: Gustatory

Definition:
1. Relating to taste or the sense of taste
2. Having to do with taste or eating

Examples:
1. The dinner was a gustatory pleasure for the palate.
2. The party included an array of gustatory desserts paired with wine.
3. The chef was trying to teach his students about the gustatory arts.

Did You Know:
Gustatory is a member of a finite set of words that describe the senses with which we encounter our world, the other members being visual, aural, olfactory, and tactile. Like its peers, gustatory has its roots in Latin-in this case the Latin word gustare, meaning "to taste." Gustare is a somewhat distant relative of several common English words, among them choose and disgust, but is a direct ancestor only of gustatory, gustation, meaning "the act or sensation of tasting," and degustation, meaning "the action or an instance of tasting especially in a series of small portions."