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mastications

mastications is the plural of mastication.

Meaning of mastication

Noun

mastication (countable and uncountable, plural mastications)

  1. The process of chewing.
    • “It is no more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat,” I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication. The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge...1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...
  2. The process of crushing as though chewed.

Questions about mastications

What is mastications the plural of?
Mastications is the plural of mastication.

Words near mastications in the dictionary

  1. masticater
  2. masticaters
  3. masticates
  4. masticating
  5. mastication
  6. mastications
  7. masticator
  8. masticatoric
  9. masticatories
  10. masticators
  11. masticatory

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