Definitions for Dentalium

Dentalium den·ta·li·um

Spelling: [den-tey-lee-uh m]
IPA: /dɛnˈteɪ li əm/

Dentalium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

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Definitions for Dentalium

noun

  1. any tooth shell of the genus Dentalium.

Origin of Dentalium

1860-65; New Latin Medieval Latin dentāl(is) dental + -ium -ium

Examples for Dentalium

A similar modification of the velum occurs in dentalium and in Myzomenia among the Amphineura.

This is the well-known dentalium pretiosum, or Tooth-shell, generally known as the Hioqua.

Nose bones or shells, Mish-mes-lah, were sometimes worn; those of rich persons consisted of one of the long dentalium shells.

dentalium shells were found under the body, from the neck to the pelvis.

Incised designs on dentalium shells are shown in Figs. 117 and 118.

One of the most characteristic of them lives in dentalium, the tooth-shell.

Two dentalium shells of which one was crushed and discarded.

Upon the west coast dentalium pretiosum is very abundant north of California.

Some of the incised designs on dentalium shells are shown in Figs. 117 and 118.

Some of the larger species of dentalium from deep-sea stations are four to five inches in length.

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