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dentex

dentex noun: any member of the genus Dentex of perciform fish.

dentex: any member of the genus Dentex of perciform fish
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Noun

dentex (plural dentexes)

  1. Any member of the genus Dentex of perciform fish.

dentex meaning in Tamil

dentex in Tamil

பெரிய மீன்வகை

Forms of dentex

pluraldentexes

Origin of dentex

Borrowed from translingual Dentex, from Latin dentex, from Latin dēns (“tooth”). Further from Proto-Italic *dents and Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts.

Questions about dentex

What does dentex mean?
Dentex means any member of the genus Dentex of perciform fish.
What is dentex in Tamil?
Dentex in Tamil is பெரிய மீன்வகை. See Dentex meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dentex?
Dentex is a noun.
What is the plural of dentex?
The plural of dentex is dentexes.

Words near dentex in the dictionary

  1. dentel
  2. dentelle
  3. dentelles
  4. dentels
  5. dentes
  6. dentex
  7. dentexes
  8. denti-
  9. dential
  10. dentialveolar
  11. dentialveolars

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dentex (page history and authors); dentex (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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