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What is the noun for maw?

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maw
  1. (archaic) The stomach, especially of an animal.
  2. The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.
  3. Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
  4. Appetite; inclination.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. mouth, gob, chops, kisser, jaws, trap, muzzle, bake, lips, beak, cakehole, yap, mug, piehole, mush, puss, bazoo, proboscis, nose, schnozzle, snout, conk, laughing gear, gab, jaw, neb, schnozz, snoot, schnoz, honker, nozzle, smeller, trunk, hooter, bill, snitch, sniffer, bracket, bugle, nostrils, whiffer, snuffer, adenoids, sneezer, horn, nares, olfactory nerves … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “He opened his maw wide to catch the flying insect.”
      “This particular one now being full, he carefully sealed the lid and readjusted his belt so that the maw of an empty jar gaped up at him.”
      “And the distillery, soon to be delisted for other reasons, produced strong results before falling into the maw of the Parisians.”
maw
  1. A gull.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mouth, gob, chops, kisser, jaws, trap, muzzle, bake, lips, beak, cakehole, yap, mug, piehole, mush, puss, bazoo, proboscis, nose, schnozzle, snout, conk, laughing gear, gab, jaw, neb, schnozz, snoot, schnoz, honker, nozzle, smeller, trunk, hooter, bill, snitch, sniffer, bracket, bugle, nostrils, whiffer, snuffer, adenoids, sneezer, horn, nares, olfactory nerves … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He opened his maw wide to catch the flying insect.”
      “This particular one now being full, he carefully sealed the lid and readjusted his belt so that the maw of an empty jar gaped up at him.”
      “And the distillery, soon to be delisted for other reasons, produced strong results before falling into the maw of the Parisians.”
maw
  1. (dialect, colloquial) Mother.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mouth, gob, chops, kisser, jaws, trap, muzzle, bake, lips, beak, cakehole, yap, mug, piehole, mush, puss, bazoo, proboscis, nose, schnozzle, snout, conk, laughing gear, gab, jaw, neb, schnozz, snoot, schnoz, honker, nozzle, smeller, trunk, hooter, bill, snitch, sniffer, bracket, bugle, nostrils, whiffer, snuffer, adenoids, sneezer, horn, nares, olfactory nerves … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He opened his maw wide to catch the flying insect.”
      “This particular one now being full, he carefully sealed the lid and readjusted his belt so that the maw of an empty jar gaped up at him.”
      “And the distillery, soon to be delisted for other reasons, produced strong results before falling into the maw of the Parisians.”
maws
  1. plural of maw
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mouths, gob, chops, kissers, traps, muzzles, bakes, mugs, mush, cakeholes, bazoos, yaps, pusses, pieholes, laughing gear, beaks, gab, jaws, faces, gullets, crops, craws, throats, oesophagi, pharynges, gorges, gulas, throttles, esophagi, necks, weasands, cytopharynxes, larynges, windpipes, gorgets, fauces, tracheas, passages, oropharynxes, voice boxes, cytostomes, proboscises, snouts, noses, schnozzles, conks, hooters … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “We have allowed a bureaucratic monster to emerge from the maws of politically appointed health boards and vested interests.”
      “Some chunks of the concrete even lay on the ground below gaping maws where they used to reside.”
      “The stores that faced out into the streets did so with wide, gaping maws created by the shattered state of their glass windows.”
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