A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches.

synonyms: saliva, spit.

Roget 299: excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation [Med.], ecchymosis [Med.]; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap [Vulg.]; bloody flux; cacation^†; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation^†, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology [Med.].    saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism^†, salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta [Biol.], sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae etc. (uncleanness) 653 [Lat.].    hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring etc. (egress) 295.    ... show more

Dutch: jodenlijm, speeksel, spuug, zever
Polish: ślinka