dental

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dental or Late Latin dentālis, from dēns (“a tooth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

adj

  1. (relational) Of or concerning the teeth.
    dental care
  2. (dentistry, relational) Of or concerning dentistry.
  3. (phonetics) Made with the tip of the tongue touching the upper front teeth or the alveolar ridge.
    dental fricative

noun

  1. (veterinary medicine) Cleaning and polishing of an animal's teeth.
  2. (phonetics) A dental sound.
    'Che Normah pronounced the name in the Malay manner, metathetically: Ruperet, the final dental initiated but not exploded. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253

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