mastication

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The process of chewing. countable,uncountable
    — “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.
  2. The process of crushing as though chewed. countable,uncountable

词形变化

mastications plural

词汇关系

衍生词
demastication muscle of mastication premastication remastication
相关词
masticate masticatory

词源

From Late Latin masticātiō, equivalent to masticate + -ion.
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