Noun mastication has 1 sense
  1. chew, chewing, mastication, manduction - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
    --1 is a kind of change of state
    --1 is a part of eating, feeding
    --1 has particulars: chomping; mumbling, gumming; rumination
    Derived form: verb masticate2
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