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Definition of Dentex
1. n. An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidæ.
Definition of Dentex
1. Noun. (zoology) Any member of the genus ''Dentex'' of perciform fish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dentex
1. a voracious Mediterranean fish [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Dentex
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentex
Literary usage of Dentex
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"In the second tribe there is but one genus, dentex, Cuv. ... We distinguish from
the other species of dentex, by the name (1) It is the ..."
2. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"Salmonoid has the jaws so powerfully developed as this species; the character of
the large intermaxillary teeth, from which the name " dentex " was derived, ..."
3. Catalogue of Apedal Fish: In the Collection of the British Museum by Johann Jakob Kaup (1856)
"Leptocephalus dentex, Cantor, Mal. Fish. 1815. Diagn. A short, taper-pointed snout.
Five teeth in the upper jaw, with five smaller ones interposed. ..."
4. The Fishes of Zanzibar by Robert Lambert Playfair, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"Leptocephalus dentex, Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 333; Kaup, Cat. Ap. Fish. p. 151.
East coast of Africa. Penang. 437. ..."
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