Crossword-Solution: CARNASSIAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Carnassial | a. | Adapted to eating flesh. |
| Carnassial | n. | A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in many carnivores. |
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| CARNIVOROUS teeth | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with CARNASSIAL (5)
DESCRIPTION.--The fur of the upper part bright fulvous; more or less tinged with maroon on the back, lighter underneath; membranes dusky, but tinged with the prevailing colour of the fur; ears angulated; a minute false molar in front of the carnassial in the upper jaw.
There is also a difference in the lower carnassial or first molar, which impinges on the upper carnassial or fourth premolar; it has a protuberance behind, termed the heel, which is prominently marked, but it is in the molars in which the greatest deviation from the specially carnivorous dentition occurs.
Further, you know from experience that such and such definitely modified organs are invariably found with the carnivorous habit, carnassial teeth, for example, and reduced clavicles.
From a "carnivorous" alimentary canal, then, you can infer with certainty that the animal possessed carnassial teeth and the other structural peculiarities of carnivorous animals, _e.g._, the peculiar coronoid process of the mandible.
The bush-dog (_Speothos_, or _Icticyon venaticus_) of Guiana is a small, short-legged, short-tailed and short-haired species characterized by the molars being only (2 or 1)/2; the carnassial having no inner cusp.