manducatory

English

Etymology

From Latin mandūcāt- +‎ -ory.[1]

Adjective

manducatory (not comparable)

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.

Related terms

References

James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Manducatory (mæ·ndiŭkătəri), a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 114: “f. L. mandūcāt- (see Manducate) + -ory.”

“manducatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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