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carnassial

noun as in tooth

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The second is strong and essentially carnassial; it is compressed laterally and obliquely placed.

There is no carnassial tooth, and the teeth in other ways differ considerably from those of Carnivora vera.

In the Creodonta there are no specially differentiated carnassial teeth.

There is no special carnassial tooth, and the incisors are always fewer than 3/3.

The carnassial tooth of the upper jaw has three lobes to the blade; that of the lower jaw is without an inner cusp.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to carnassial, such as: bicuspid, cuspid, eyetooth, fang, incisor, and ivory.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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