Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having flavor or taste; yielding some kind of taste.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having flavour or taste

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective full of flavor

Etymologies

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Latin saporius that relishes well, savory, from sapor taste.

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Examples

  • After letting the pipe cool, and then filling it with a favourite blend of mingled Virginia, Perique, and Latakia, our friend asserts that he is blessed with a cool, saporous, and enchanting fumigation which is so fragrant that even his wife has remarked upon it in terms complimentary.

    Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

  • Don't mean to inspire envy, but I have tender roasted beef in a saporous burgundy wine sauce with a side of unadjectived brown rice and vegetables for lunch (also LC, heehee).

    Wired Campus 2010

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