Definitions

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  • Of or pertaining to the vomer.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the vomer.

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  • adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the vomer.

Etymologies

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vomer +‎ -ine

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Examples

  • They had lidless slit-pupiled eyes, gaping nostril pits, outsize lipless jaws rimmed with yellow vomerine fangs.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009

  • For example, vomerine teeth—that is, those on the vomer bone in the center of the roof of the mouth—occur in two well-developed rows along the length of the vomer in Oncorhynchus and Salmo, but only in a small patch at the front of the vomer in Salvelinus.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • For example, vomerine teeth—that is, those on the vomer bone in the center of the roof of the mouth—occur in two well-developed rows along the length of the vomer in Oncorhynchus and Salmo, but only in a small patch at the front of the vomer in Salvelinus.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • For example, vomerine teeth—that is, those on the vomer bone in the center of the roof of the mouth—occur in two well-developed rows along the length of the vomer in Oncorhynchus and Salmo, but only in a small patch at the front of the vomer in Salvelinus.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • For example, vomerine teeth—that is, those on the vomer bone in the center of the roof of the mouth—occur in two well-developed rows along the length of the vomer in Oncorhynchus and Salmo, but only in a small patch at the front of the vomer in Salvelinus.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The jaws are provided with small teeth in several rows, and there is an elongate patch of further teeth on each side of the front of the palate (inserted on the vomerine and palatine bones).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

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  • Pertaining to the thin flat bone forming part of the separation between the nasal passages in mammals.

    July 7, 2018