pregustation

From pre- +‎ gustation.

pregustation (countable and uncountable, plural pregustations)

1. The act of tasting something 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

• “pregustation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.