taste bud

Amongst anthropological jargon, there is little mention of the taste bud and its evolution.

Each taste bud consists of a collection of spindle-shaped neurones, each cell tipped at its outer end with a hairlike projection.

And every taste bud on the dead flesh was tipped with that white stuff that gets in your mouth when your bowels are upset.

Anchoring herself by magnetic processes, she began to weave the atmosphere delicately with her taste-bud tendrils.