dentate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dentātus from dēns (“tooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnteɪt/

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Adjective

dentate (comparative more dentate, superlative most dentate)

1. Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

• bidentate
• bisdentate
• dentatectomy
• dentate fascia
• dentate gyrus
• dentately
• dentate nucleus
• denticulate
• heptadentate
• hexadentate
• monodentate
• multidentate
• octadentate
• octodentate
• paucidentate
• pentadentate
• peridentate
• polydentate
• predentate
• quadridentate
• quinquedentate
• repandodentate
• subdentate
• tetradentate
• tridentate
• tubulidentate
• unidentate

Translations

Having teeth or toothlike projections

Bulgarian: назъбен (bg) (nazǎben) Czech: zubatý Dutch: gekarteld (nl) Finnish: sahalaitainen (fi) French: denté (fr), dentelé (fr)

Interlingua

Adjective

dentate (comparative plus dentate, superlative le plus dentate)

1. jagged
2. toothed

Italian

Adjective

dentate

1. feminine plural of dentato

Anagrams

• attende, dattene

Latin

Adjective

dentāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dentātus

Spanish

Verb

dentate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of dentar combined with te