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  • noun Plural form of incisor.

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Examples

  • Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly.

    vampishone Diary Entry vampishone 2002

  • Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smokingpiece whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly.

    Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition) 1993

  • Posterior to the incisors are the canines or tusks, and forming the arms of the arch are the molar teeth.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • The teeth that form the middle and anterior portion of the arch are termed incisors (Fig. 52).

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • Clenched firmly between his incisors was a smoking piece whose grey fumes, forming a tenuous ellipse about his occiput, were suggestive of a decorative seasonal circlet of holly.

    LJWorld.com stories: News 2009

  • Of other teeth it had only the two moderate-sized front tusks above and two very big, chisel-like "incisors" in the front of the lower jaw.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • The researchers found on the ancient bones shallow U-shaped grooves and other similar bite marks that suggested pairs of opposing teeth-just the kind of incisors that the now-extinct multituberculates possessed.

    Scientific American 2010

  • The researchers found on the ancient bones shallow U-shaped grooves and other similar bite marks that suggested pairs of opposing teeth-just the kind of incisors that the now-extinct multituberculates possessed.

    Scientific American 2010

  • The use of gold crowns in more prominent teeth such as incisors is favored in some cultures and discouraged in others. colored, and can be made with tightly controlled particle sizes up to a few tens of nanometers across by reduction of gold chloride with citrate or ascorbate ions.

    Zach Klein Universal Feed 2010

  • Bunny yawns caused mirth too; there was something about those huge incisors, top and bottom, and all the tiny teeth on the sides that gave theyawns a delicious comic effect.

    Puff Sandra Knauf 2011

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