bidental

bidental adjective: having only two teeth.

Adjective

bidental (not comparable)

Having only two teeth.

Synonyms:

bidentate
articulated with both the upper and lower teeth.
- Finally, a position of almost bidental contact can be a paralinguistic voice qualifier or secondary articulation we should acknowledge as a dentalization, that is, the articulation of vowels and consonants 'through one's teeth', which can make the labial kinesic component of normal articulation be...1993, Fernando Poyatos, Paralanguage: A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds
- dental percussives, produced by clicking maxillary and mandibular teeth together at different speeds, but typically as a bidental chatter, that is, in a repeated rapid way (as in chattering from cold or fear); with bidental percussives resonating in the oral cavity musical notes can be played up...2002, Fernando Poyatos, Nonverbal Communication Across Disciplines

bidental (plural bidentals)

An organism that has only two teeth, especially a dinosaur of the infraorder Dicynodontia.
- The letter proceeds to state that, besides this monster, there is a great variety of remains of another new order of animals, which Mr. Bain has deginated as bidentals, from their possessing only two teeth, or rather tusks, in the upper jaw, and none whatever in the lower jaw.1845, The Church of England Magazine, volume 18
- That these Bidentals, as Mr. Owen more comprehensively calls them, are amongst the earliest reptiles, has been somewhat rashly assumed.1851, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the natural history of creation, page 305

bidental (plural bidentals)

(historical) In Ancient Rome, a place that had been struck by lightning and consecrated and enclosed.
- The bidental was a place that had been struck with lightning, and afterwards expiated by the erection of an altar and the sacrifice of sheep, hostiis bidentibus; from which last circumstance it took its name.1835, Charles Horace, The Works of Horace, with explanatory notes, page 632
- The peculiar monument called bidental has a decided place in the question of a circular templum. The bidental was the consecrated burial-place of the thunderbolt of Jove on the spot where the bolt was supposed to have buried itself in the ground.1914, A. L. Frothingham, “Circular templum and mundus. Was the templum only rectangular?”, in American Journal of Archaeology, volume 18, page 314

இருசுவர் உடைய

The convention for transcribing bidental fricatives, suggested in the expIPA chart, uses the appropriate glottal fricative symbol with a dental diacritic both above and below the symbol.2013, Nigel Hewlett, An Introduction to the Science of Phonetics:
The bidental is one of the more problematic structures of the colony and no consensus has yet emerged as to its date.2006, Celia E. Schultz, Religion in Republican Italy, page 98:
The side was no designated as a puteal (lightning well) or bidental (lightning fork) and sacred (religiosus), never again to be trod on or touched by a mortal human being.2009, J.T. Sibley, The Divine Thunderbolt: Missile of the Gods, page 116:

plural	bidentals

From bi- + dental.

Borrowed from Latin bidental.

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What does bidental mean?: Bidental means having only two teeth.
What is bidental in Tamil?: Bidental in Tamil is இருசுவர் உடைய. See Bidental meaning in Tamil.
How do you use bidental in a sentence?: The convention for transcribing bidental fricatives, suggested in the expIPA chart, uses the appropriate glottal fricative symbol with a dental diacritic both above and below the symbol.
What part of speech is bidental?: Bidental can be an adjective or a noun.

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