Noun: fauces
Sample Sentences
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There are two orange-coloured spots at the fauces of that Cypræa Isabella, whence its name, orange-tip. [1826, Mary Anne Venning, Rudiments of Conchology, page 94:]
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Even at that early age the lamella in the fauces may be distinctly traced through the translucent shell. [1872, American Journal of Conchology, volume 7, page 226:]
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The tubercle is the same color but with white fauces. The glossy shell coloring is extremely various; the background is white, yellow or black, with or without longitudinal zigzag lines, transverse bands or blotches covering the surface. [1993, Recovery Plan for the Oʻahu Tree Snails of the Genus Achatinella, page 14:]
Nouns inflected like fauces
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin faucēs (“the upper part of a throat”). See: Latin Nouns '
faucēs'.