Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a tooth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a form of a tooth; tooth-like; odontoid; specifically, in entomology, projecting and pointed, the section approaching an equalateral triangle, as a process.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the shape or structure of a
tooth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Anglice, the Covent-garden gout), 'twas all one to him; touching only their dentiform vertebrae thrice with a piece of a wooden shoe, he made them as wholesome as so many sucking-pigs.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Had it been the rankest Roan ague (Anglice, the Covent-garden gout), ’twas all one to him; touching only their dentiform vertebrae thrice with
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Had it been the rankest Roan ague (Anglice, the Covent-garden gout), ’twas all one to him; touching only their dentiform vertebrae thrice with
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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