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hypertaster

hypertaster noun: someone with an extremely sensitive sense of taste.

Noun

hypertaster (plural hypertasters)

  1. Someone with an extremely sensitive sense of taste.
    • Barb Stuckey, the company's chief innovation and marketing officer, who describes herself as a hypertaster and whose tongue can detect changes in barometric pressure, greeted me in the hall carrying an armful of milk cartons.2024 November 19, Tomas Weber, “Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Forms of hypertaster

pluralhypertasters

Origin of hypertaster

From hyper- + taster.

Questions about hypertaster

What does hypertaster mean?
Hypertaster means someone with an extremely sensitive sense of taste.
What part of speech is hypertaster?
Hypertaster is a noun.
What is the plural of hypertaster?
The plural of hypertaster is hypertasters.

Words near hypertaster in the dictionary

  1. hypertargets
  2. hypertargetted
  3. hypertargetting
  4. hypertask
  5. hypertasks
  6. hypertaster
  7. hypertasters
  8. hypertaurodont
  9. hypertax
  10. hypertaxation
  11. hypertaxes

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