manducatory

English

Etymology

From manducate +‎ -ory.[1]

Adjective

manducatory (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
    manducatory organs
    • 2011, Fred Vargas, translated by Siân Reynolds, An Uncertain Place: A Commissaire Adamsberg Mystery, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 344:
      […] 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.

References

  1. ^ “manducatory, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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