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TASTEBUD

Dictionary entry overview: What does tastebud mean?

• TASTEBUD (noun)
The noun TASTEBUD has 1 sense:

1. an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue

Familiarity information: TASTEBUD used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TASTEBUD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

gustatory organ; taste bud; tastebud

Hypernyms ("tastebud" is a kind of...):

chemoreceptor (a sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli)

Meronyms (parts of "tastebud"):

neuroepithelium (epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve endings)

gustatory cell; taste cell (an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve)

Holonyms ("tastebud" is a part of...):

clapper; glossa; lingua; tongue (a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity)

epiglottis (a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing)

palate; roof of the mouth (the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities)

pharynx; throat (the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone)

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