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Maw
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WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Maw
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1.
the mouth, throat, crop, or stomach of an animal, esp of a voracious animal
2. informal
the mouth or stomach of a greedy person
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Maw
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1.
a. Archaic
the stomach or its cavity
b.
the stomach of an animal; specif., the fourth stomach of a cud-chewing animal
2.
the throat, gullet, jaws, or oral cavity of a voracious animal
3.
anything thought of as consuming, devouring, etc. without end
noun
Dialectal
ma; mama; mother
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Maw
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1. The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore.
2. The opening into something felt to be insatiable: "I saw the opening maw of hell" (Herman Melville).
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