bidentals

Noun (1)

bidental (plural bidentals)

1. 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

Noun (2)

bidental (plural bidentals)

1. (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

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