Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being chewed; susceptible of mastication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being masticated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
chewed .
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Examples
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Such carrots! small, cadaverous, brick-coloured things, no bigger than a cork, as dry, as masticable, and, still like a cork, with little save a _smell_ to commend their indulgence.
The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan
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Roots are so easily masticable that if they are rendered more so there is danger of their being so hastily swallowed as to escape thorough insalivation, which is so necessary to ensure perfect digestion.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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a process which left it masticable indeed, but void of savour and nourishment.
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages Rudyard Kipling 1900
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