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单词 saliva
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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

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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. 

salivanoun [ U ]

us/səˈlɑɪ·və/

biology the natural, watery liquid in the mouth that keeps it wet and helps prepare food for digestion

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