Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gustatory_cell

1 sense of gustatory cell

Sense 1
taste cell, gustatory cell -- (an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve)
       => epithelial cell -- (one of the closely packed cells forming the epithelium)