Crossword-Solution: DENTARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dentary | a. | Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth. |
| Dentary | n. | The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth. |
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| lower jawbone with teeth | 1 answer |
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Sentences with DENTARY (5)
The buntings generally may be also outwardly distinguished from the finches by their angular gape, the posterior portion of which is greatly deflected; and most of the Old-World forms, together with some of those of the New World, have a bony knob on the palate--a swollen outgrowth of the dentary edges of the bill.
Hertwig considered that the following bones were originally formed by coalescence of teeth--parasphenoid, vomer, palatine, pterygoid, the tooth-bearing part of the pre-maxillary, the maxillary, the dentary and certain bones of the hyo-mandibular skeleton of Teleosts.
The edge of the dentary rises above the bases of the teeth medially, thereby producing a small depression at the junction of each base with the dentary bone.
The fragment is a piece from the posterior portion of the dentary, since the decrease in height from the first tooth to the fourth is pronounced.
Presumably the fragment is too deep dorsoventrally to be a piece of the dentary, and no sign of the Meckelian canal is present.