pregustation

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See also: prégustation

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ gustation.

Noun

pregustation (countable and uncountable, plural pregustations)

  1. The act of tasting beforehand; foretaste.
    • 2001, Kerry F. Harris, Oney P. Smith, James E. Duffus, Virus-Insect-Plant Interactions:
      simultaneous secretion and ingestion of Sw followed by egestion are natural components of the pregustation phase of host selection probes

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pregustation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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