salivaladj.n.
/səˈlʌɪvəl/ Now rare.† B. n. plural.
A. adj.
= salivary adj.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [adjective] > secreting saliva
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salivatory1699
salivary1709
salivate1710
salivating1829
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > saliva > [adjective] > consisting of
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salivary1841
salivan1882
1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar iii. 34 That salival ferment in the mouth which inchoates digestion.
1672 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 6) iii. xvi. 161 Salival conducts and passages.
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xi. 195 To afford that noble digestive salival Liquor to be mixed with the Food in Mastication.
1744 Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 441 The Vessels called salival Ducts by Coschivitzius.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xli. 124 He suspects that they may be salival vessels.
1881 W. C. Russell Ocean Free-lance I. iii. 81 The salival froth dropping from the jaws of a bloodhound.
The salivary glands. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > salivary glands
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sublingual1715
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. viii. 334 Ranula is a soft Swelling possessing those Salivalls under the Tongue.
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