dentigerous
Adjective

dentigerous (not comparable)

  1. Bearing teeth or tooth-like structures; of or pertaining to tissue from which teeth develop.
    • 1986, William E. Duellman, Linda Trueb, Biology of Amphibians, page 317 ↗,
      They usually bear teeth on a dentigerous process or, occasionally, as in Hemiphractus, odontoids (projections of bone resembling teeth).
    • 2006, Gunther Theischinger, John Hawking, The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia, page 136 ↗,
      Female with dentigerous plate of ovipositor moderately wide and bearing 8–12 teeth; anal appendages of female not particularly pointed (B).
Synonyms
  • (pertaining to tooth-generating tissue) follicular



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