| 单词 | pandiculation |
| 释义 | pandiculation (once / 695254 pages) n If you've ever awoken in the morning, yawned, and stretched your arms, you've experienced pandiculation. Use the noun pandiculation to describe the particular sleepy combination of yawning and stretching. It's a somewhat obscure but impressive way to talk about a universal phenomenon. Animals are prone to pandiculation too, extending their paws in a stretch and yawning widely. The Latin root is pandiculari, "to stretch oneself," from pandere, "to stretch." WORD FAMILYpandiculation n yawning and stretching (as when first waking up) Hyper stretch, stretching exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent oscitance, oscitancy, yawn, yawningan involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom |
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