Definition of Dentaliums

1. dentalium [n] - See also: dentalium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentaliums

dental surgery
dental syringe
dental technician
dental technicians
dental tubercle
dental tubules
dental ulcer
dental veneers
dental waste
dentalgia
dentalia
dentalism
dentalities
dentality
dentalium
dentaliums (current term)
dentally
dentals
dentarias
dentaries
dentary
dentary centre
dentate
dentate-ciliate
dentate-sinuate
dentate fascia
dentate fissure
dentate fracture
dentate gyri
dentate gyrus

Literary usage of Dentaliums

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia by John Keast Lord (1866)
"... stone beads, and other things I need not here enumerate, from the drift, I found numbers of dentaliums and round buttons made of the Haliotis nacre. ..."

2. Pacific Educational Journal by California Dept. of Public Instruction (1893)
"Iu a pile of drift shells, we found a number of dentaliums, or tooth shells, those curious, spine-like shells which the Indians used to make into a sort of ..."

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