manducatory

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adjective

Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

“manducatory organs”

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Meanings

adjectivemanducatory (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

    manducatory organs

    1 more example

    […] they hadn’t just been killed but annihilated, and more especially their thumbs, teeth and feet. That their functional, spiritual and manducatory organs had been systematically destroyed.

    2011, Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds, An Uncertain Place: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 344

Origin

From manducate + -ory.

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manducatory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manducatory

MLA

“manducatory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manducatory. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “manducatory,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/manducatory.

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