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macerations

macerations is the plural of maceration.

Meaning of maceration

Noun

maceration (countable and uncountable, plural macerations)

  1. Soaking and softening (in combination), plus or minus dissolving.
  2. Communition, dissolving, or any combination thereof.
    • […] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.2001, Ralph E. Molnar, H. Trevor Clifford, “An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia”, in Kenneth Carpenter, editor, The Armored Dinosaurs, page 404

Questions about macerations

What is macerations the plural of?
Macerations is the plural of maceration.

Words near macerations in the dictionary

  1. macerater
  2. maceraters
  3. macerates
  4. macerating
  5. maceration
  6. macerations
  7. macerative
  8. macerator
  9. macerators
  10. macerozyme
  11. macerozymes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: macerations (page history and authors); maceration (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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