Definitions for dentaries

dentaries den·ta·ry

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

Dentaries is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 831 anagrams from letters in dentaries (adeeinrst).

Definitions for dentaries

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 dentaries

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

Examples for dentaries

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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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