taste bud
Example Sentences
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"This is just the beginning of research to create climate resilient fruit and create a fruit that is acceptable to the Indian taste bud."
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025
You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook — sweet sensors at the tip, salty on either side, sour behind them, bitter in the back.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
Taste bud cells from wildtype mice showed a sharp increase in action potentials after ammonium chloride was added while taste bud cells from the mice lacking OTOP1 failed to respond to the salt.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2023
Grimace himself has been described as the "embodiment" of a milkshake, while other speculate that he's actually just a sentient taste bud.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023
The grinning purple blob has commonly been interpreted by others as a taste bud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
