Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or used in mastication.
- adjective Adapted for chewing.
- noun A medicinal substance chewed to increase salivation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to mastication; used in or effected by chewing: as, the masticatory apparatus or process.
- noun A substance chewed to excite the secretion of saliva.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Chewing; adapted to perform the office of chewing food.
- noun (Med.) A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something
chewed , originally as a medicine, now typically for pleasure or to increase the flow ofsaliva . - adjective Of, or relating to
mastication . - adjective Used for
chewing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I can see them offering us a big tentacle, yes, right in the masticatory orifice!
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Mechanistria - Eric Frank Russell Blue Tyson 2008
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I can see them offering us a big tentacle, yes, right in the masticatory orifice!
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Men Martians and Machines - Eric Frank Russell Blue Tyson 2008
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I can see them offering us a big tentacle, yes, right in the masticatory orifice!
Archive 2008-07-01 Blue Tyson 2008
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I can see them offering us a big tentacle, yes, right in the masticatory orifice!
Archive 2008-07-01 Blue Tyson 2008
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Scientists were selectively breeding the foxes to be tame but suddenly found their tamest foxes had developed many of the traits found in dogs-- such as droopy ears, strange coat colors, decreased skull size in comparison to the wild-type, a decrease in tooth size and an overall reduction of the entire masticatory bone structure.
Because when it comes down to it, we're all Russian foxes, my friend. Kosmo 2008
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Its small grinding teeth suggest it had only weak masticatory muscles for chewing food, and probably tucked into soft vegetation, fruit and squidgy aquatic plants in deltas, the experts say.
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The guinea-pig has teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence can never subserve the masticatory purpose for which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, the female dugong has tusks which never cut the gum.
Essays 2007
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I told them to stuff it down their masticatory orifices.
Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004
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One of the bums had his right arm put out of joint, and the other his upper jaw-bone or mandibule dislocated so that it hid half his chin, with a denudation of the uvula, and sad loss of the molar, masticatory, and canine teeth.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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One of the bums had his right arm put out of joint, and the other his upper jaw-bone or mandibule dislocated so that it hid half his chin, with a denudation of the uvula, and sad loss of the molar, masticatory, and canine teeth.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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