Bidental

Quick meaning: Bidental is an adjective meaning (zoology) Having only two teeth.

Meaning

(zoology) Having only two teeth.

More Meanings

1. (phonetics) articulated with both the upper and lower teeth.
2. (zoology) An organism that has only two teeth, especially a dinosaur of the infraorder Dicynodontia.
3. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a place that had been struck by lightning and consecrated and enclosed.

Example Sentences

That these Bidentals, as Mr. Owen more comprehensively calls them, are amongst the earliest reptiles, has been somewhat rashly assumed.

The convention for transcribing bidental fricatives, suggested in the expIPA chart, uses the appropriate glottal fricative symbol with a dental diacritic both above and below the symbol.

The bidental was a place that had been struck with lightning, and afterwards expiated by the erection of an altar and the sacrifice of sheep, hostiis bidentibus; from which last circumstance it took its name.

It was in this area, as well, that he found, among other creatures, his first Dicynodon, one of those famous mammal-like reptiles that he called bidentals because they had only two tusks in the upper jaw and no teeth.

Word Forms

• bidentals

Synonyms for bidental

Depending on context, synonyms include bidentate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paucidentate, opisthodont, dentirostral, didactylous, tubulidentate, isodont.

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