Variant of a dose that can taste salty (7)
I believe the answer is:
seafood
'variant of a dose that can taste salty' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'variant of a dose' is the wordplay.
'variant' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'variant of' mean this).
'of'+'a'+'dose'='ofadose'
'ofadose' is an anagram of 'SEAFOOD'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for seafood that I've seen before include "Shellfish, marine fish" , "The "surf" of a surf 'n' turf dish" , "Eaten fish and shellfish" , "Edible fish, shellfish etc from the oceans" , "Such as prawns, tuna" .)