Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The type, number, and arrangement of a set of teeth.
- noun The process of growing new teeth; teething.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of cutting teeth; teething.
- noun The time during which teeth are being cut.
- noun The kind, number, and arrangement of the teeth proper to any animal: as, the carnivorous dentition, in which the teeth are normally specialized as incisors, canines, premolars, and molars; the rodent dentition, in which some or all of the teeth grow indefinitely from persistent pulps, the incisors are scalpriform, and canines are absent; the monophyodont dentition, in which there is but one set of teeth; the diphyodont dentition, in which there are two sets of teeth, etc.
- noun the state of being toothed or dentate; denticulation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The development and cutting of teeth; teething.
- noun (Zoöl.) The system of teeth peculiar to an animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The set of natural
teeth of an individual - noun The
type ,number andarrangement of the normal teeth of anorganism or of the actual teeth of an individual - noun The
process of growing teeth;teething
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the eruption through the gums of baby teeth
- noun the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now, even given the horrific worldwide opinion of British dentition, which is not wholly-unjustifiable, and the stunning UK sweet-tooth, I found this a, how shall we say, rather large amount of sugar, especially in comparison to the penurious amounts of food that the provisions amount to, no matter how large the original amount might seem.
Science 2009
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For slight general disturbances such as dentition, colds, sore throats, etc., it is usually sufficient simply to dilute the food.
The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses L. Emmett Holt
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Compare this and the following figures with Fig. 10, showing the more complete "dentition" of the pig.] [Illustration: Fig. 17.
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It's likely that he was descended from a small population of sundadonts (sundadonty being the dentition pattern that was an evolutionary precursor to sinodonty, which developed and still exists in South Asia, aka the Indian Subcontinent), whose ancestors may have migrated into the Americas before the solidification of the traits that comprise sinodonty, and subsequently competed, lived alongside, and were eventually genetically enveloped by the later waves of migration.
What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009
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Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger.
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"Do you agree with Barack Obama's decision to close the dentition (sic) center in Guantanamo Bay and move some of the world's most dangerous terrorists to the United States?"
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Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger.
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Anyhoo, all three of these migrations were of what might be called the Mongoloid racial type, or more properly were all sinodonts, since the characteristics of the Mongoloid type were still in their incipient stage, but sinodonty (a dentition pattern characterized by the presence of shovel-shaped incisors*, which evolved in Central and primarily East Asia) was a trait held in common among all members of the pre-Mongoloid race then, and the Mongoloid race today.
What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009
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The relatively large postcanine root surface areas, which are most similar to A. melanoleuca, suggest that the dentition of G. blacki was adapted to sustaining relatively large occlusal forces needed to fracture mechanically resistant foods such as bamboo.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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So nothing stops them as they insert the old wing-tip deeply in among the dentition.
Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009
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