dentition
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The discovery of teeth on the tenaculum has reopened that debate, prompting researchers to ask how widespread such features might be and what they reveal about the history of vertebrate dentition.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
Pondering extraterrestrial dentition is just one of the byproducts of working on the series for more than five years.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2025
The fossil dolphin’s dentition was unlike anything seen in living cetaceans.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
Corpus Christi A young man recently released from dentition passes himself off as a parish priest in a small village in this Academy Award-nominated drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2020
Den′tary, belonging to dentition, bearing teeth.—n. the distal element of the jaw of vertebrates below mammals.—Dental engine, a mechanical appliance giving a rotary motion to a dentist's boring instruments.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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