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dentately

dentately adverb: in a dentate or toothed manner.

Adverb

dentately (comparative more dentately, superlative most dentately)

  1. In a dentate or toothed manner.
    • dentately ciliated
    • dentately serrated

Forms of dentately

comparativemore dentately
superlativemost dentately

Origin of dentately

From dentate + -ly.

Words formed from dentately

Questions about dentately

What does dentately mean?
Dentately means in a dentate or toothed manner.
What part of speech is dentately?
Dentately is an adverb.

Words near dentately in the dictionary

  1. dentate nuclei
  2. dentate nucleus
  3. dentatectomies
  4. dentatectomy
  5. dentated
  6. dentately
  7. dentatherinid
  8. dentatherinids
  9. dentation
  10. dentations
  11. dentatorubral

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