ORAL FISSURE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge

Example:

he stuffed his mouth with candy

Synonyms:

mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("oral fissure" is a kind of...):

rima (a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts)

Meronyms (parts of "oral fissure"):

dentition; teeth (the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal)

clapper; glossa; lingua; tongue (a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity)

buccal cavity (the cavity between the jaws and the cheeks)

gingiva; gum (the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth)

palate; roof of the mouth (the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities)

salivary gland (any of three pairs of glands in the mouth and digestive system that secrete saliva for digestion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oral fissure"):

cakehole; gob; hole; maw; trap; yap (informal terms for the mouth)

Holonyms ("oral fissure" is a part of...):

mouth (the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening)