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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to the cheeks or the mouth cavity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to the bucca or cheek.
  2. Pertaining to the sides of the mouth, or to the mouth or mouth-parts as a whole; oral; maxillary.
  3. A branch of the inferior maxillary nerve supplying the integument and mucous membrane of the cheek.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth.
  2. adj. dentistry On the side facing the cheek.
  3. adj. medicine, of a drug Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to or toward the cheek
  2. adj. lying within the mouth
  3. adj. oriented toward the inside of the cheek

Etymologies

  1. From Latin bucca (“cheek; mouth”) +‎ -al. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin bucca, cheek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • knitandpurl "This was a normal rite of passage then: from being rickety-gnashered to fully porcelained in one leap, to all that buccal sliding and clacking, to social embarrassment and the foaming glass on the bedside table."
    From "The Past Conditional" by Julian Barnes
    The New Yorker, Dec. 25, 2006 and Jan. 1, 2007, p 56 Dec 25, 2006

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