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- noun Plural form of
toothlet .
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Examples
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Calyx bell-shaped, with 5 scarcely visible toothlets.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Corolla diminutive, 5 toothlets; anther none; stigmas 2.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Nectary bell-shaped, surrounding the ovary, shorter than the calyx, with 4 toothlets which lengthening form the filaments of as many stamens.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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It is only in this little island of Majorca, surrounded by very deep water and not known to have nurtured any other animal so large in size either in recent or geologic times, that we come upon a Ruminant with horns like a goat's, but with great rat-like front teeth in place of the semicircle of eight little cropping toothlets.
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