1.
[syn: alveolar consonant, dental consonant, alveolar, dental]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. of or relating to the teeth;
- Example: "dental floss"
2. of or relating to dentistry;
- Example: "dental student"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dental \den"tal\ (d[e^]n"tal), a. [L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf.
F. dental. See Tooth.]
1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental
surgery.
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2. (Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain
articulations and the letters representing them; as, d and
t are dental letters.
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Dental formula (Zool.), a brief notation used by zoologists
to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal.
Dental surgeon, a dentist.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dental \Den"tal\, n. [Cf. F. dentale. See Dental, a.]
1. An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.
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2. (Zool.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a
curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dental
adj 1: of or relating to the teeth; "dental floss"
2: of or relating to dentistry; "dental student"
n 1: a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the
gum ridge [syn: alveolar consonant, dental consonant,
alveolar, dental]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "dental":
accented, allopathic, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bicuspid,
bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chiropodic,
chiropractic, clinical, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant,
dentiform, dentoid, dissimilated, dorsal, exodontic, fanged, flat,
front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high,
homeopathic, hydropathic, iatric, intonated, labial, labiodental,
labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, medical,
mid, molar, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized,
naturopathic, neurological, obstetric, occlusive, odontoid, open,
orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, oxytone, palatal,
palatalized, pediatric, periodontic, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic,
prosthodontic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, snaggle-toothed,
snaggled, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, surgical,
syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, toothed, toothlike,
toothy, tusked, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar,
vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide