masticatory

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One of the bums had his right arm put out of joint, and the other his upper jaw-bone or mandibule dislocated so that it hid half his chin, with a denudation of the uvula, and sad loss of the molar, masticatory, and canine teeth.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or used in mastication: masticatory muscles.
  2. adjective Adapted for chewing.
  3. noun A medicinal substance chewed to increase salivation.

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  • Starting at the back of the right upper dental arcade, they gradually moved the scope forward, examining the masticatory surfaces. —  Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
  • Hints of a 30 Rock star's bowel movements, plans for drinking in public, delicious hair, and more: Tina Fey questioned her masticatory work ethic. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Hints of a 30 Rock star's bowel movements, plans for drinking in public, delicious hair, and more: Tina Fey (or someone doing a bad impression of Fey, who could possibly be Fey herself) questioned her masticatory work ethic. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • "I could not help but be aware of a certain mastery in Mrs Arthrop's scarlet-taloned hands and of the way her plump mouth - plump but the lips flat to the face, like Jimmy Carter's - coped with the little masticatory indiscretion of ejecting the tangerine seeds as each segment was consumed, letting them find their way via her fingers to the cardboard tray". —  Telegraph Blogs
  • The masticatory organs of Arthropods were jaws disjointed at their symphysis; antennć, nostrils turned outside in Dugčs also made a comparison of Articulates with Vertebrates. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
 

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  1. = French masticatoire = Provencal mastiguatori = Spanish Italian masticatorio, from New Latin * masticatorius, from Late Latin masticare, chew: see masticate, masticator.
 

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/ˈmæstɪkətəri/
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