ALL meanings of taste bud
taste bud
T t - noun,plural taste bud sense organs that detect taste 1
- noun taste bud one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste. 1
- countable noun taste bud Your taste buds are the little points on the surface of your tongue which enable you to recognize the flavour of a food or drink. 0
- noun taste bud any of the elevated oval-shaped sensory end organs on the surface of the tongue, by means of which the sensation of taste is experienced 0
- noun taste bud an oval cluster of cells embedded principally in the epithelium of the tongue and functioning as the sense organ of taste 0