gustatory organ

1. 1.

   an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue

   Synonymstastebudtaste bud

   Broaderchemoreceptor

   Part oftonguepalateepiglottisthroat

   Partsneuroepitheliumtaste cell

Questions about gustatory organ

What does gustatory organ mean?

gustatory organ means "an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue".

What is another word for gustatory organ?

Close synonyms include tastebud, taste bud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gustatory organ a common word?

gustatory organ is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.