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What does fauces mean?
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NounPlural: fauces |
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| fauces - the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx | ||
| passageway, passage a passage between rooms or between buildings | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- fauces (n.pl.)
The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils. - fauces (n.pl.)
The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc. - fauces (n.pl.)
That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture. - fauces (pl. )
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Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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fauces
faw′sēz, n.pl. the upper part of the throat, from the root of the tongue to the entrance of the gullet.—adj. Fau′cal, produced in the fauces, as certain Semitic guttural sounds. [L.]
