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anatomical structure found in certainprimates consisting of long, flatteeth with microscopic grooves, and used forgrooming the fur.
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Examples
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"I hadn't seen the papers for it and until my advisers and I had gone through the papers with a toothcomb there was no way that was going to be paid."
Rangers' cash mess will not make club go bust, says owner Craig Whyte 2011
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When an action is received it is carefully disassembled and gone over with a very fine toothcomb.
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Working his chainsaw with extraordinary deftness, he executes a series of toothcomb incisions that may exceed a hundred into a column of green wood.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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She also lacked two key elements of modern lemurs: a grooming claw and a row of lower teeth known as the toothcomb.
Archive 2009-05-01 News from Mad Plato 2009
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She also lacked two key elements of modern lemurs: a grooming claw and a row of lower teeth known as the toothcomb.
THE LINK IS STILL MISSING News from Mad Plato 2009
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Working his chainsaw with extraordinary deftness, he executes a series of toothcomb incisions that may exceed a hundred into a column of green wood.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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X-rays reveal both baby and adult teeth, plus the lack of a “toothcomb” or a “grooming claw,” which is an attribute of lemurs which are also primates, like us.
47 Million Year Old Primate Fossil Discovered | Impact Lab 2009
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The bodies in question are going through a whole range of issues with a fine toothcomb: how Obasanjo managed his billions of oil money in the days when he was president and oil minister, how additional billions were frittered away on improving the power sector without anyone having anything to show for it and how companies were sold off to cronies on the cheap.
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In the first attempt for many years to chart the long-term trend in tropical forest area, he spent more than three years going through all available United Nations data with a fine toothcomb – and found some serious problems.
Are tropical forests declining??? GayandRight 2008
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Inevitably, it now falls to take a fine toothcomb to the European Council's mandate.
Archive 2007-06-01 Richard 2007
perodicticus commented on the word toothcomb
This word isn't in many dictionaries, but it is used by primatologists to mean the row of specialised teeth that pottos and other prosimians use to groom themselves (and each other).
July 11, 2007