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salivatory

salivatory adjective: associated with or accompanied by salivation.

Adjective

salivatory (comparative more salivatory, superlative most salivatory)

  1. Associated with or accompanied by salivation
    • Sleep-overs took on the kind of salivatory anticipation that most children reserve for Halloween .2009 January 4, Joshua Yaffa, “Forbidden Nonfruit”, in New York Times

Forms of salivatory

comparativemore salivatory
superlativemost salivatory

Origin of salivatory

From saliva + -atory.

Questions about salivatory

What does salivatory mean?
Salivatory means associated with or accompanied by salivation.
What part of speech is salivatory?
Salivatory is an adjective.

Words near salivatory in the dictionary

  1. salivatingly
  2. salivation
  3. salivations
  4. salivator
  5. salivators
  6. salivatory
  7. salivette
  8. salivettes
  9. salivirus
  10. saliviruses
  11. salivous

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