tastebud

US/ˈteɪstbʌd/

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: tastebuds

A tastebud is one of the tiny organs on the tongue that sense flavour. Wake up your tastebuds.

There are a few thousand, and they are replaced every couple of weeks. The map showing one tastebud region for sweet and another for bitter is entirely wrong and still printed.

Definitions of tastebud

1nountastebudOne of the tiny organs on the tongue that sense flavour.C1
“A hot drink can burn every tastebud on the tongue.”

tastebud is an organ.

Also accepted in games: taste bud

Where it comes from

Taste plus bud, from the small rounded shape seen under a microscope.

From taste + bud.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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