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taste bud

an oval cluster of cells embedded principally in the epithelium of the tongue and functioning as the sense organ of taste

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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