Definitions for maceration

maceration mac·er·a·tion

Spelling: [mas-uh-rey-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌmæs əˈreɪ ʃən/

Maceration is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1064 anagrams from letters in maceration (aaceimnort).

Definitions for maceration

noun

  1. the act or process of macerating.
  2. a process in winemaking in which the crushed grape skins are left in the juice until they have imparted the desired color or the proper amount of tannins and aroma.

Origin of maceration

1485-95; Latin mācerātiōn-, stem of mācerātiō; see macerate, -ion

Examples for maceration

Dopplerite, dop′ler-īt, n. a substance derived from the maceration of peat.

They are treated by maceration and enfleurage, chiefly the latter.

If the prescribed directions be duly attended to, the process of maceration is unexceptionable.

The maceration of different portions of the skeleton is produced by water.

For the production of the huile and pomade they are treated by maceration.

Fleshy coverings of hard and bony seeds may be removed by maceration.

The flowers are not there treated for the otto, but are submitted to a process of maceration in fat or oil, ten kilos.

After that, the gloom of his people settled down upon him, and the gospel of maceration began its work.

We obtained them in enormous abundance in a maceration of fish.

He prayed, fasted, went through a course of maceration of the body.

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