MASTICATION

chew, chewing, mastication, manduction

(noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

mastication (countable and uncountable, plural mastications)

(physiology) The process of chewing.

The process of crushing as though chewed.

Anagrams

• aminostatic

Source: Wiktionary


Mas`ti*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. masticatio: cf. F. mastication.]

Definition: The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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