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noun
- 1. the jaws or throat of a voracious animal: "a gigantic wolfhound with a fearful, gaping maw"
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The meaning of MAW is the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing. How to use maw in a sentence.
MAW definition: 1. the mouth of a fierce (= frightening) animal: 2. something that seems to surround and absorb…. Learn more.
noun. the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal. the crop or craw of a fowl. the stomach, especially that of an animal. a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal: the gaping maw of hell.
Maw definition: The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore.
Definition of maw noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
MAW meaning: 1. the mouth of a fierce (= frightening) animal: 2. something that seems to surround and absorb…. Learn more.
A maw, you see, is an informal term for a mouth. There's something ravenous as well as ferocious about the term maw, and in fact it comes from the Old English word maga meaning "stomach."
maw meaning, definition, what is maw: something which seems to swallow or use ...: Learn more.
If you describe something as a maw, you mean that it is like a big open mouth which swallows everything near it.
1. the mouth, throat, or stomach, esp. of a voracious carnivore. 2. the crop or craw of a fowl. 3. something that suggests a maw. [before 900; Middle English mawe, Old English maga, c. Old High German mago, Old Norse magi]
