GUSTATORY CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gustatory cell mean? 

• GUSTATORY CELL (noun)
  The noun GUSTATORY CELL has 1 sense:

1. an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve

  Familiarity information: GUSTATORY CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUSTATORY CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

gustatory cell; taste cell

Hypernyms ("gustatory cell" is a kind of...):

epithelial cell (one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium)

Holonyms ("gustatory cell" is a part of...):

gustatory organ; taste bud; tastebud (an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue)