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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-281/
- Published: 2025-05-13T18:15:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-13T18:15:51.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

gustatory (adjective):

: relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gustatory?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 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 direct ancestor 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." More distant relatives of gustare include choose and disgust

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