Jun. 8th, 2007

sapid

Jun. 8th, 2007 07:18 am
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sapid - adj., possessing taste or flavor; having an agreeable flavor, pleasant-tasting; agreeable to one's mind, engaging.


Or in a technical sense, affecting the organs of taste. From Latin sapidus, tasty, from sapere, to taste -- which word by extension came to mean to know, to be wise, from whence sapient and sage (the person -- sage the herb has a different root).

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