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fauces

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6 lettersPronunciation /fɔː.siːz/Part of speech nounSorted acefsuStarts with FEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx

Word origin

Borrowing from Latin faucēs (“the upper part of a throat”).

Used in a sentence

  • There are two orange-coloured spots at the fauces of that Cypræa Isabella, whence its name, orange-tip.
  • Even at that early age the lamella in the fauces may be distinctly traced through the translucent shell.

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