1. the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; - Example: "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste" [syn: taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sense of taste
n 1: the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and
salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of
his sense of taste" [syn: taste, gustation, sense of
taste, gustatory modality]