ˈpiːkənt ˈzɛsti having a pleasant taste morally wholesome or acceptable a past that was scarcely savory having an agreeably pungent taste an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees