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Beccal vs Buccal - What's the difference?

beccal | buccal |

As adjectives the difference between beccal and buccal

is that beccal is pertaining to a beak or bill while buccal is of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth.

beccal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • pertaining to a beak or bill
  • :* 1997': It faced me…its ominous Beak crank’d open…it quack’d, its eye holding a certain gleam, and began to speak, in a curious Accent, inflected heavily with linguo-'''beccal Fricatives… (Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon )
  • buccal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth.
  • (dentistry, of a premolar or molar) On the side facing the cheek.
  • (medicine, of a drug) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
  • Antonyms

    * (of a tooth) lingual

    Synonyms

    * genal

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Derived terms

    * buccal cavity * buccal pumping * transbuccal ----