Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imperfectly dentate; having indistinct teeth; denticulate.
- Of cetaceans, having teeth in the lower jaw only: the opposite of
superdentate .
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Black; the face with tufts of black pubescence above the insertion of the antennæ; mandibles very stout, with an acute tooth at their apex, the inner margin subdentate, and covered with fine cinereous pubescence.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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