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dentes

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[den-teez] / ˈdɛn tiz /

noun

  1. plural of dens.


Example Sentences

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“Nunca imaginei uma situação assim”, disse Íris, enquanto o aparelho dos seus dentes brilhava e ela tentava acalmar Alícia com um de seus únicos métodos bem-sucedidos: tocar repetidamente um desenho animado musical no seu celular.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Proferendumque est quicquid est adspiratum eodum halitu quo f, sed minime admoto ad superiores dentes inferiore labello, ore aut aperto ha, he hi, ho, hu, et concusso pectore.

From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

To obviate the objection that these are all the bodies of children, it is affirmed that the skulls are found to have possessed the dentes sapienti� and must have belonged to persons of mature age.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Quis salvum ab invidia caput retraheret, ac malignitatis dentes in liberiore censura evitaret?

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Mucrones: in Collembola the two small end pieces of the furcula, proceeding from the dentes.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

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