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- noun Plural form of
dentation .
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Examples
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ROBERTS: I heard an expert say over the weekend because of the bite radius, the dentations looked like the shark was at least 15 feet long.
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No, there seemed to be several males; he could tell by the positioning of the hoofprints about the in - dentations of urination sites.
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
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No, there seemed to be several males; he could tell by the positioning of the hoofprints about the in - dentations of urination sites.
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
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In the situation of the intervertebral fibrocartilages and contiguous margins of the vertebræ, where the ligament is more intimately adherent, it is broad, and in the thoracic and lumbar regions presents a series of dentations with intervening concave margins; but it is narrow and thick over the centers of the bodies, from which it is separated by the basivertebral veins.
III. Syndesmology. 5. Articulations of the Trunk. a. Articulations of the Vertebral Column 1918
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In the specimens represented in figures 347 and 348 marginal dentations are used.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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The upper surface of the vase (figure 274) shows a similar arrangement, although the feathers here are conventionalized into triangular dentations, seven on one side and three on the other, individual dentations alternating with rectangular designs which suggest rain-clouds.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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There are also dentations on a section of the edge of the lines.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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