ingestation
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
gest
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
ingestation
the process of taking food etc into body as by swallowing, inhaling or absorbing; ingestation is not the opposite of gestation (which means pregnancy)
咽下， 吞下
ingestation 的切分如下:
ingestation = in- (in 进人) + gest (carry 运送) + -ation (process 过程);
ingestation = the process of carrying food into body 将食物送进身体的过程。 咽下， 吞下
现在我来再次切分一下该词试试
ingestation = the process of carrying food into body 将食物送进身体的过程。 咽下， 吞下
该词的重要词根如下:
in-
gest
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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