Definitions for dentary

dentary den·ta·ry

Spelling: [den-tuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈdɛn tə ri/

Dentary is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 238 anagrams from letters in dentary (adenrty).

Definitions for dentary

noun

  1. one of a pair of membrane bones that in lower vertebrates form the distal part of the lower jaws and in mammals comprise the mandible.

Origin of dentary

1820-30; Latin dentārius of the teeth, equivalent to dent- (stem of dēns) tooth + -ārius -ary

Examples for dentary

The angular and dentary of the lower jaw appear concurrently with the dentigerous bones.

Such an insertion leaves unexplained the great dorsal production of the dentary, surangular and coronoid.

These are the articular, angular, dentary, and splenial (coronoid).

Lower jaw composed of dentary bone only, articulating only with the squamosal.

The dentary lies external to the angular and extends from the mentomecklian to approximately the mid-length of the angular.

The posterior half of the dentary overlies the fused surangular-prearticular part of the articular.

Rotula, rot′ū-la, n. the patella or knee-pan: one of the five radial pieces in the dentary apparatus of the sea-urchin.

Small teeth occur on the palatine and the pterygoid in the upper jaw and on the dentary in the lower jaw.

In Mammalia the dentary is the only element present (vide p. 590).

The dentary bone bears 17 curved teeth that decrease in size posteriorly.

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