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Centrifugal vs Masticating - What's the difference?

centrifugal | masticating |

As an adjective centrifugal

is tending, or causing, to recede from the center.

As a verb masticating is

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centrifugal

English

Adjective

(wikipedia centrifugal) (-)
  • Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  • (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
  • (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

    • Antonyms

    * centripetal

    Derived terms

    * centrifugal force

    References

    * * centrifugal] ''[http://oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.

    masticating

    English

    Verb

    (head)