as in drool
the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands
our mouths filled with saliva when we smelled the delicious dinner
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Recent Examples of saliva
Arakawa, 65, died on about Feb. 11 from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare disease transmitted through rodent urine, droppings or saliva, officials said.
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Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
What Is Hantavirus? Humans can catch hantavirus from contact with rodents like rats and deer mice, especially when exposed to their urine, droppings, and saliva.
—Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 11 Mar. 2025
Rodents carry the virus and it is contained in their urine, droppings, and saliva.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
Hantavirus can be transmitted from rodent dropping, urine and saliva.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2025
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Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2025
What Is Hantavirus? Humans can catch hantavirus from contact with rodents like rats and deer mice, especially when exposed to their urine, droppings, and saliva.
—Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 11 Mar. 2025
Rodents carry the virus and it is contained in their urine, droppings, and saliva.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
Hantavirus can be transmitted from rodent dropping, urine and saliva.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saliva
Noun
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Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!—
Alex Perry,
The Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2024
Noun
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California urged its citizens to request that 23andMe delete their data and destroy their spit samples.—
Kayte Spector-Bagdady,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2025
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Then Victoria told a story about her own brother pinning her down and dangling spit above her mouth.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
24 Mar. 2025
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The mayor nodded and smiled, but also flinched, as though struck by spittle.—
E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2024
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Filling the air with spittle as plentiful as the Allied bombs raining down along the English Channel.—
John Anderson,
WSJ,
31 Oct. 2023
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“Saliva.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saliva. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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