Definitions for carnassial

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carnassial car·nas·si·al

Spelling: [kahr-nas-ee-uh l]

IPA: /kɑrˈnæs i əl/

Carnassial is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 394 anagrams from letters in carnassial (aaacilnrss).

Definitions for carnassial

adjective

1. (of teeth) adapted for shearing flesh.

noun

1. a carnassial tooth, especially the last upper premolar or the first lower molar tooth of certain carnivores.

Origin of carnassial

1840-50; French carnassi(er) flesh-eating (Provençal, equivalent to carnasse augmentative derivative of carn flesh, meat (Latin carn-, stem of carō) + -ier -ary) +

Examples for carnassial

The carnassial tooth is less emphasised in this group than in the Cats.

The carnassial teeth are not typically developed, and the molars are broad and tuberculate.

The carnassial tooth of the upper jaw has three lobes to the blade; that of the lower jaw is without an inner cusp.

From the carnassial tooth you can infer the reduced clavicle, and so on.

There is no carnassial tooth, and the teeth in other ways differ considerably from those of Carnivora vera.