4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: dental \den"tal\ (d[e^]n"tal), a. [L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dental. See {Tooth}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery. [1913 Webster] 2. (Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain articulations and the letters representing them; as, d and t are dental letters. [1913 Webster] {Dental formula} (Zool.), a brief notation used by zoologists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal. {Dental surgeon}, a dentist. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Dental \Den"tal\, n. [Cf. F. dentale. See {Dental}, a.] 1. An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) A marine mollusk of the genus {Dentalium}, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See {Dentalium}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: dental adj 1: of or relating to the teeth; "dental floss" 2: of or relating to dentistry; "dental student" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 118 Moby Thesaurus words for "dental": accented, allopathic, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bicuspid, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chiropodic, chiropractic, clinical, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dentiform, dentoid, dissimilated, dorsal, exodontic, fanged, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, homeopathic, hydropathic, iatric, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, medical, mid, molar, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, naturopathic, neurological, obstetric, occlusive, odontoid, open, orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pediatric, periodontic, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, prosthodontic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, snaggle-toothed, snaggled, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, surgical, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, toothed, toothlike, toothy, tusked, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
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