toothlike

• a word derived from tooth.
  tooth

  noun

  (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.

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toothlike

To Ahlberg, it is clear that external tissue can produce complex, toothlike scales.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 2, 2022

The big test of how we would cope with the altitude came on Day Four, when we climbed to Lava Tower, a giant, toothlike rock at 15,200 feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

In a group called Scaptomyza, bristle number increased with the onset of plant-eating around 10 million years ago, suggesting that a greater density of these toothlike hairs helped with herbivory.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

Saltillo, a sprawling industrial city a few hours south of Laredo, sits in a wide valley surrounded by toothlike mountain ridges.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2013

A hundred yards before us was Eagle Rapids—a forbidding patch of writhing, whitening water, pricked with the upward thrust of toothlike rocks.

From The River and I by John G. Neihardt

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