salivary

1. 1.

   of or relating to saliva

   “salivary gland”

Questions about salivary

What does salivary mean?

salivary means "of or relating to saliva".

How many syllables are in salivary?

salivary has 4 syllables: sa-li-va-ry. The stress falls on "li".

Is salivary a common word?

salivary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.