| 单词 | taste-bud |
| 释义 | > as lemmastaste-bud taste-bud n. a group of cells in the epithelium of the tongue etc., through which the faculty of taste operates; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > taste organ > [noun] taster1596 taste-bud1879 taste-bulb1883 taste-goblet1888 taste-cell1890 taste-beaker1901 taste-corpuscle- 1879 J. F. Fulton Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) xiv. 365 Peculiar structures, known as taste buds, or taste goblets, have been discovered in the circumvallate papillæ. 1951 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory ii. 30 It is..to the lowly and ugly agarics, that nations with timorous taste-buds limit their knowledge and appetite. 1963 Listener 3 Jan. 40/1 Vested interests and pressure-groups work upon everything from our political opinions to our taste-buds. 1970 T. S. Leeson & C. R. Leeson Histol. (ed. 2) xiv. 274/2 A few taste buds are found also in the palate and epiglottis. < as lemmas |
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