bucculent

English

Etymology

From Latin bucculentus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌkjələnt/

Adjective

bucculent (comparative more bucculent, superlative most bucculent)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Possessing a wide mouth.
    • 1823, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 276:
      […] and instead of the Amazonian Trull, or the weather-beaten Admiral which frowns from under the bowsprit of a British man-of-war, they carve on their prows the fair image of some bucculent Cherub, or some semi-anatomized Saint.
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