Masticate vs Mouthpart - What's the difference?
masticate | mouthpart |
To chew (food).
To grind or knead something into a pulp.
(usually in plural) An appendage-like structure on the outside of an insect's or other arthropod's mouth, serving to manipulate and masticate food.
As a verb masticate
is to chew (food).As a noun mouthpart is
(usually in plural) an appendage-like structure on the outside of an insect's or other arthropod's mouth, serving to manipulate and masticate food.masticate
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Verb
(masticat)- The cow stood, quietly masticating its cud.
Quotations
{{timeline, 1800s=1832 1892 1896, 1900s=1927}} * 1832 — , ch. 4 *: The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master’s orders. * 1892 — , ch. 12 *: 'By tasting it, to be sure,' said I, masticating a morsel that Kory-Kory had just put in my mouth. * 1896 — , ch. 8 *: He resumed his meal. "I had no idea of it," he said, and masticated . * 1927-1929'— *: The vegetables were not to be cooked but merely grated fine, if I could not masticate them. * 2001 - , The Pickup *: The friends watch the two make their way between other habitué's masticating , drinking, crouched in a scrum of conversation...''See also
* mastic * masticable * mastication * masticator * masticatoryAnagrams
* English transitive verbs ----mouthpart
English
(mouthparts)Alternative forms
* mouth-part (especially historically)Noun
(en noun)- The fans, or brushes, create currents in the water that direct food toward the larvae’s mouthparts and help stuff the food into their deeply concealed mouths.
