Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dentigerous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.05 in modern English

Syllables: dentiger-ous
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures; of or pertaining to tissue from which teeth develop.

Example Sentences

"They usually bear teeth on a dentigerous process or, occasionally, as in Hemiphractus, odontoids (projections of bone resembling teeth)."
"Occasionally dentigerous cysts may be lined partially or wholly by pseudostratified columnar epithelium with cilia and mucous cells."
"Female with dentigerous plate of ovipositor moderately wide and bearing 8–12 teeth; anal appendages of female not particularly pointed (B)."

Etymology

From Latin dentis (“genitive singular of dens”) + -gerous (“bearing”).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: gerous

Synonyms

follicular

Rhymes With

armigerous plumigerous ovigerous proligerous cornigerous coralligerous pupigerous calcigerous cirrigerous setigerous lanigerous ramigerous

Questions

What does dentigerous mean?: Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures; of or pertaining to tissue from which teeth develop.
Where does dentigerous come from?: From Latin dentis (“genitive singular of dens”) + -gerous (“bearing”).

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