manducatory
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mandūcāt- + -ory.[1]
Adjective
[edit]manducatory (not comparable)
- Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
- manducatory organs
- 2011, Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds, An Uncertain Place: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 344:
- […] 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.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Manducatory (mæ·ndiŭkătəri), a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 114: “f. L. mandūcāt- (see Manducate) + -ory.”
- “manducatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.