Did you perchance mean toothsome?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An anatomical structure found in certain primates consisting of long, flat teeth with microscopic grooves, and used for grooming the fur.
Examples
“I hadn't seen the papers for it and until my advisers and I had gone through the papers with a toothcomb there was no way that was going to be paid.”
The Guardian: Rangers' cash mess will not make club go bust, says owner Craig Whyte
“When an action is received it is carefully disassembled and gone over with a very fine toothcomb.”
“Working his chainsaw with extraordinary deftness, he executes a series of toothcomb incisions that may exceed a hundred into a column of green wood.”
“She also lacked two key elements of modern lemurs: a grooming claw and a row of lower teeth known as the toothcomb.”
“X-rays reveal both baby and adult teeth, plus the lack of a “toothcomb” or a “grooming claw,” which is an attribute of lemurs which are also primates, like us.”
“The bodies in question are going through a whole range of issues with a fine toothcomb: how Obasanjo managed his billions of oil money in the days when he was president and oil minister, how additional billions were frittered away on improving the power sector without anyone having anything to show for it and how companies were sold off to cronies on the cheap.”
“In the first attempt for many years to chart the long-term trend in tropical forest area, he spent more than three years going through all available United Nations data with a fine toothcomb – and found some serious problems.”
“Inevitably, it now falls to take a fine toothcomb to the European Council's mandate.”
“Inevitably, it now falls to Drs Richard North and Helen Szamuely and their associates to take a fine toothcomb to the detail of European Council's mandate decided yesterday.”
“After the elections, the Congress, which is experienced in skulduggery, used the period of peace talks to go over Nallamalla forests their hideout with a toothcomb.”
Lists
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party animals
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A Toothy List
canine tooth, pin-tooth, stomach-tooth, bulb of a tooth, by the skin of on..., cardinal teeth, clean as a hound'..., elephant's-tooth, toothshell, hake's-tooth, cut one's teeth, lie through one's... and 93 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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potto, prosimian, strepsirrhine, toothcomb, gum, primate, vertebrae, groom, pelage, nocturnal, claw, canopy and 20 more...
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perodicticus This word isn't in many dictionaries, but it is used by primatologists to mean the row of specialised teeth that pottos and other prosimians use to groom themselves (and each other). Jul 11, 2007