mastication
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /mæstɪˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (Hampshire, England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
mastication (countable and uncountable, plural mastications)
- (physiology) The process of chewing.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:
- "It is 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, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs.
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- The process of crushing as though chewed.
Related terms
- masticate
Translations
process of chewing
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Anagrams
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French
Noun
mastication f (plural mastications)
- mastication
Further reading
- “mastication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.