Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the teeth; dental.
- Bearing teeth: as, the dentary bone. See II.
- noun The distal or symphyseal piece or element of the compound lower jaw of vertebrates below mammals: so called because it bears or may bear teeth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Relating to, or bearing,
teeth . - noun anatomy The
dentary bone .
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Examples
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But in the Yixian Formation enantiornithean Protopteryx (image at left: taken from Dinosaur. net.cn) there are just two conical, unserrated teeth in the premaxillae and two subtriangular teeth at the dentary tips (Zhang & Zhou 2000).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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The euenantiornithean Eoenantiornis has four subconical teeth in each premaxilla while there were probably six or seven teeth in each dentary, the rostral-most two of which were larger than the others (Zhou et al. 2005).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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Firstly, the medial surface of the dentary possesses trough-like concavities that Fox et al. interpreted as areas for the articulation of post-dentary bones.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Pressure-sensitive organs termed Herbst corpuscles, embedded within pits on the premaxillary and dentary tips, are closely packed and particularly numerous in birds that probe sediments.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The euenantiornithean Eoenantiornis has four subconical teeth in each premaxilla while there were probably six or seven teeth in each dentary, the rostral-most two of which were larger than the others (Zhou et al. 2005).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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They include the lack of dentary symphyseal splaying around the canines and the lack of an obliquely oriented lower tooth row.
Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea Darren Naish 2006
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Theretairus (Simpson 1926) is known from two specimens (the holotype is a single dentary from Como Bluff), although some consider it to be a juvenile form of Opisthias.
The Tuatara -- The Fastest Evolving Animal ReBecca Foster 2008
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Theretairus (Simpson 1926) is known from two specimens (the holotype is a single dentary from Como Bluff), although some consider it to be a juvenile form of Opisthias.
Archive 2008-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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It seems that these birds lost the teeth from the back of the jaws first, and kept their premaxillary and dentary-tip teeth the longest.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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But in the Yixian Formation enantiornithean Protopteryx (image at left: taken from Dinosaur. net.cn) there are just two conical, unserrated teeth in the premaxillae and two subtriangular teeth at the dentary tips (Zhang & Zhou 2000).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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