Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or furnished with teeth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or supporting teeth; supplied with teeth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bearing
teeth or tooth-likestructures ; of or pertaining to tissue from which teeth develop.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[denti– + Latin gerere, to bear.]
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From Latin dentis ("genitive singular of dens") + -gerous (“bearing”).
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Examples
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A _dentigerous cyst_ appears as a smooth, rounded, and painless swelling, usually in the region of the molar teeth.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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I had a wisdom tooth and associated dentigerous cyst removed under general anaesthesia in feb 09.
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One type of simple cyst, which is the most common type of ovarian cyst, is the graafian follicle cyst, follicular cyst, or dentigerous cyst.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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