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Flavorous

Imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid.

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Tasty 84% connected

Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.

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Tasty 84% connected

Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.

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Sapid 92% connected

Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.

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Saporous 92% connected

Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste.

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Agreeable adjective · 78% connection

Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to…

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Allspice noun · 78% connection

The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jama…

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Bittersweet adjective · 78% connection

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

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Cumin noun · 78% connection

A dwarf umbelliferous plant, somewhat resembling fennel (Cuminum Cyminum), cultivated for its seeds, which have a bitterish, warm tast…

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Degustation noun · 78% connection

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

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Delicacy adjective · 78% connection

That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste…

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Delicate adjective · 78% connection

Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate…

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Finish noun · 78% connection

(wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed); "the wine has a nutty flavor and a pleasant finish"

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Flavor noun · 78% connection

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

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Foxy adjective · 78% connection

Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the…

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Fragrancy noun · 78% connection

The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

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Groundnut noun · 78% connection

A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the…

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Gustable verb · 78% connection

Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory.

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Mammee noun · 78% connection

A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana); also, its fruit. The latter is large, covered with a t…

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Mate noun · 78% connection

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable…

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Mushroom noun · 78% connection

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus.…

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Otaheite apple unknown · 78% connection

The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree (Spondias dulcis), also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind…

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Pistachio noun · 78% connection

The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant ta…

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