fla·vor·ing
(flā́vər-ĭng)
noun
- A substance, such as an extract or spice, that imparts flavor.
fla·vor
(flā́vər)
[Middle English flavour, aroma, from Old French flaor, from Vulgar Latin* flātor, from Latin flāre, to blow.]
noun
- Distinctive taste; savor: a flavor of smoke in bacon. See synonyms at taste
- A distinctive yet intangible quality felt to be characteristic of a given thing: “What matters in literature . . . is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or color of a particular human suffering” (Harold Bloom)
- A flavoring: contains no artificial flavors.
- Physics Any of six classifications of quark varieties (up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom), distinguished by mass and electric charge.
- Archaic Aroma; fragrance.
transitive verb: -vored, -vor·ing, -vors.
- To give flavor to.
derivatives
- flávor·er
- noun
- flávor·less
- adjective
- flávor·ous
- adjective
- flávor·y
- adjective
