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dentalia

dentalia is the plural of dentalium.

Meaning of dentalium

Noun

dentalium (plural dentalia or dentaliums)

  1. Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium.
    • Apart from the two or three bird masks, the only other zoomorphic mask was a wolf frontlet of cedar decorated in micaceous black paint with dentalium teeth, dentalium being an important form of wealth with some of the attributes of a currency.1999, Jonathan C. H. King, First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America, page 138

Questions about dentalia

What is dentalia the plural of?
Dentalia is the plural of dentalium.

Words near dentalia in the dictionary

  1. dental surgeon
  2. dental surgeons
  3. dental surgeries
  4. dental surgery
  5. dentalgia
  6. dentalia
  7. dentaliid
  8. dentaliids
  9. dentalise
  10. dentalised
  11. dentalises

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