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Definition of Carnassials
1. carnassial [n] - See also: carnassial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnassials
Literary usage of Carnassials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monograph of the Fossil Mammalia of the Mesozoic Formations by Richard Owen (1871)
"... significantly indicate the tough integument which such modified carnassials
would be well fashioned to divide. Trenchant premolars need not the ridged ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"Of the incisors, the foremost above are long and large tusks, like the pair
below : of the other teeth, the carnassials, of unusually large size, ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"... 18x12; breadth at posterior end of carnassials, 37; ... from front of canine,
30; length of upper carnassials, 12.5; length of lower car- ..."
4. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"unreduced in number, and there were three pairs of carnassials. ... The three
lower molars were carnassials of a rather imperfect kind and the first was the ..."
5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1868)
"carnassials; development was concentrated on these at the cost of the rest of
... The foremost teeth seized, pierced, lacerated or killed, the carnassials ..."
6. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1904)
"The incisors are the same size as in aztecus, but the canines are much more
slender, and the premolars (except the rudimentary upper one) and carnassials ..."
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