Crossword-Solution: MALAXATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Malaxation | n. | The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “MALAXATION”
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| a kneading movement in massage | 1 answer |
| MASSAGE, movement used in | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MALAXATION (4)
The sting being completed, she proceeded to the process known as _malaxation_, which consists in repeatedly squeezing the neck of the caterpillar, or other victim, between the mandibles, the subject of the treatment being turned around and around so that all sides may be equally affected.
Malaxation: a kneading or softening; applied to the chewing and squeezing by fossorial wasps of insects captured as food for their larva.
Thus the _Cerceris_ is obliged to destroy the upper part of the neck by repeated malaxation of that part for several minutes at a time.
Malaxation, however, let it be; but why such a process on the part of the wasp should be necessary it is not easy to see, since the mandibles are not poisonous like the sting, and the latter is all in all sufficient to produce the paralysis required, as is apparent in the instance already given, where the sting alone was employed.