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manducatory

manducatory adjective: pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

Adjective

manducatory (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
    • manducatory organs
    • […] they hadn’t just been killed but annihilated, and more especially their thumbs, teeth and feet. That their functional, spiritual and manducatory organs had been systematically destroyed.2011, Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds, An Uncertain Place: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 344

Origin of manducatory

From manducate + -ory.

Questions about manducatory

What does manducatory mean?
Manducatory means pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
What part of speech is manducatory?
Manducatory is an adjective.

Words near manducatory in the dictionary

  1. manducating
  2. manducation
  3. manducations
  4. manducator
  5. manducators
  6. manducatory
  7. Mandujano
  8. Mandujanos
  9. Mandume
  10. Mandurah
  11. Mandurama

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