taste bud

noun

: an end organ mediating the sensation of taste and lying chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue

Examples of taste bud in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After all, her grandfather crafted the substance in a lab in 1968, making taste buds soar with joy. —David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025

From comforting Southern fare to creative global dishes, there’s a lot for your taste buds to explore. —Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025

But then her taste buds came back and there was only one thing on her mind: cake. —Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025

The aim was to understand how quickly his preferences shifted when his diet changed—whether fries and chicken tenders made his taste buds crave more salt, for instance. —Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1879, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for taste bud

• waterflood
• blood
• crud
• dud
• flood
• mud
• rud
• scud
• spud
• stud
• thud
• lifeblood

Kids Definition

taste bud

noun

: any of the sense organs by means of which taste is recognized and which are usually on the surface of the tongue

Medical Definition

taste bud

noun

: an end organ that mediates the sensation of taste, lies chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue and especially in the walls of the circumvallate papillae, and consists of a conical or flask-shaped mass made up partly of supporting cells and partly of neuroepithelial sensory cells terminating peripherally in short hairlike processes which project into the pore in the overlying epithelium and by which communication with the mouth cavity is effected