denticle

Example Sentences

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Sharks often serve as the model for studying teeth and development because they have so many oral teeth and are covered in denticles.

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2025

Heterostracans possessed a feeding apparatus of rod-like oral plates with rows of forward-facing denticles outwards of the mouth.

From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2024

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 • Oct. 23, 2023

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 • Dec. 2, 2022

I wanted to reach out and touch its back, which was covered in denticles, V-shaped scales that were like teeth all over the shark’s body.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen