maceration

Etymology

Latin maceratio.

noun

  1. The act or process of macerating.
    […] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing. 2001, Ralph E. Molnar, H. Trevor Clifford, “An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia”, in Kenneth Carpenter, editor, The Armored Dinosaurs, page 404

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