What is "salivates"

Usage examples of "salivates".

I know all about Pavlov and his robots I care to know, namely, that every time a dog salivates a behaviorist psychologist has to ring a bell.

An infant has learned, one might say, that the smell of food or the sight of food means that the taste of food is about to come, and it salivates (involuntarily) in anticipation.

Salivation is an easy response to adjust and an animal that salivates copiously can be made to salivate in response to almost anything associated with food.

Jeremy salivates in Pavlovian fashion as his plaice is laid on the paper for wrapping.

Like a Pavlovian dog Mackintosh salivates, though whether through hunger or some more Freudian linking of images he is not sure.

Lucas, he's sort of the resident spiritual masochist, salivates at the mention of the word `discipline'.