denticle

Example Sentences

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The shark’s skin, we are told, is covered with triangular “denticles” rather than scales—essentially modified teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal

Identifying this structure was compelling evidence that the teeth on the tenaculum really are teeth and not leftover denticles.

From Science Daily

Recirculation patterns, highest velocity and vorticity developed directly on top of the denticles and in spaces between the denticles.

From Science Daily

This may have been because reef mantas have smaller dermal denticles and so there was less friction to keep the cups in place.

From National Geographic

They analyzed the fossils’ rostral denticles, the spikes that jut from the sides of a sawfish’s snout to aid in foraging and self-defense.

From Scientific American