manducatoryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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.

関連する語

• manducate
• manducation
• manducator

参照

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