odontophore

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And while he speaks of the teeth and that which serves these animals for a tongue, it is plain from the context that he means in the one case the two halves of the parrot-like beak, and in the other the anterior end of the odontophore.

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  1. noun A structure at the base of the mouth of most mollusks over which the radula is drawn back and forth in breaking up food.

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  • And while he speaks of the teeth and that which serves these animals for a tongue, it is plain from the context that he means in the one case the two halves of the parrot-like beak, and in the other the anterior end of the odontophore. —  Fathers of Biology
 

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/əˈdɑntəfoʊr/
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