sapid
/ˈsapɪd
/adjective
1Having a strong, pleasant taste: sapid nut bread the aromatic stew was just as sapid as it smelled...
- Saliva also contributes to taste by dissolving sapid substances in food and so making them accessible to the taste buds; a zinc-binding protein, gustin, is thought to contribute to the taste process.
- For example, Ida allowed water-deprived rats access for 15 min/day to a sapid solution on either 0, 8, or 16 consecutive days.
- When the interval between preexposure and conditioning was 1 day, the rats formed only a weak aversion to the sapid solution, whereas when the interval was 19 days, the rats formed a very strong aversion to the solution.
1.1(Of talk or writing) pleasant or interesting.We had all the preconditions for a long and sapid conversation.
Derivatives
sapidity
- Together with salt, it gives both the name and the relish to sallets from the sapidity, which renders not plants and herbs only, but men themselves pleasant and agreeable.
- Judging by his results, which he discusses in terms of sapidity and organoleptic and retronasal profiles, he, as much as anyone else, has elevated wine and cheese pairing to a science.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin sapidus, from sapere 'to taste'.
Rhymes
- disconsolately
- disconsolateness
- disconsolating
- disconsolation
- disconsolatory
- disconsonancy
- disconsonant
- discontent
- discontentation
- discontented
- discontentedly
- discontentedness
- discontentful
- discontenting
- discontentment
- discontiguity
- discontiguous
- discontinuable
- discontinual
- discontinuance
- discontinuation
- discontinue
- discontinued
- discontinuedness
- discontinuer