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hiations

hiations is the plural of hiation.

Meaning of hiation

Noun

hiation (plural hiations)

  1. (obsolete) The act of gaping; a wide open mouth.
    • the continual hiation or holding open its mouth, which men observing, conceive the intention thereof to receive the aliment of air1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about hiations

What is hiations the plural of?
Hiations is the plural of hiation.

Words near hiations in the dictionary

  1. hiates
  2. hiati
  3. hiatic
  4. hiating
  5. hiation
  6. hiations
  7. hiatoplasties
  8. hiatoplasty
  9. Hiatt
  10. Hiatts
  11. hiatus

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