bucculent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin bucculentus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bucculent (comparative more bucculent, superlative most bucculent)
- (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.