a. [as if f. L. fauci-, faucēs (see FAUCES) + -AL. Cf. FAUCAL.] a. Of or pertaining to the fauces. Of a sound: Proceeding from the fauces. b. Bot. Pertaining to the fauces or ‘throat’ of a flower.
1807. Ann. Reg., 932. That hoarse faucial noise before mentioned.
1840. Poe, William Wilson, Wks. (1864), I. 423–4. My rival had a weakness in the faucial or guttural organs, which precluded him from raising his voice at any time above a very low whisper.
1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot., v. (1858), 60. Agrimonia.… Stamens about fifteen, arising from the outside of an annular faucial disk.
