mastication
English
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin masticātiō, equivalent to masticate + -ion.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /mæstɪˈkeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
editmastication (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; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part I, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, →OCLC, book I, page 1002:
- “It is no 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.
- The process of crushing as though chewed.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editprocess of chewing
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editFrench
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmastication f (plural mastications)
Further reading
edit- “mastication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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