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- DictionaryMaw/mô/
noun
- 1. the jaws or throat of a voracious animal: "a gigantic wolfhound with a fearful, gaping maw"
The meaning of MAW is the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing. How to use maw in a sentence.
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 meaning: 1. the mouth of a fierce (= frightening) animal: 2. something that seems to surround and absorb…. Learn more.
MAW definition: 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 in American English. (mɔ) noun. 1. the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, esp. a carnivorous mammal. 2. the crop or craw of a fowl. 3. the stomach, esp. that of an animal.
(old-fashioned) an animal's stomach or throat. See maw in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: maw. Definition of maw noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
