salivanoun [ U ]
uk/səˈlaɪ.və/us/səˈlaɪ.və/the liquid produced in your mouth to keep the mouth wet and to help to prepare food to be digested
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production
- beaded
- bile
- bogy
- bucket
- discharge
- dribble
- expectorate
- jism
- lacteal
- lymphatic
- mucus
- perspiration
- phlegm
- pus
- snot
- sperm
- spermatozoon
- spit
- spunk
- sweat buckets idiom
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Examples from literature
- A healthy person makes between one and two liters of saliva every 24 hours.
- And saliva is good at fighting germs, too.
- Babies drool because they can't keep saliva in their mouths.
- But it’s not good to spit out your saliva in public.
- One way of finding the surface is to see which way your saliva falls.
- So babies make a lot of saliva to keep their gums wet.
- Some birds called swifts use saliva to build their nests.
- The birds make the nest with their saliva.
- The saliva of Komodo dragons is full of bad bacteria.
- You really don’t want to go near a Komodo dragon or its saliva.