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Adjective- Having the quality of something that affects the sense of taste or smell.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Those ribs look so savorous and rich, I think I must try that recipe.
  • In moral man it is the sensation which the organ impressed by any savorous centre impresses on the common centre.
  • That is to say, the savorous particles must be dissolved in some fluid, so as to be subsequently absorbed by the nervous tubes, feelers, or tendrils, which cover the...
  • Baudelaire saw himself as the poet of a decadent epoch, an epoch in which art had arrived at the over-ripened maturity of an aging civilization; a glowing, savorous,...
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