Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

manducatory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: man-d-u-ca-to-ry
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

Example Sentences

"manducatory organs"
"[…] 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."

Etymology

From manducate + -ory.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: manducate

Frequently Paired Words

manducate manducation manducator

Questions

What does manducatory mean?: Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
Where does manducatory come from?: From manducate + -ory.

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