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dentin

dentin noun: the hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.

Noun

dentin (usually uncountable, plural dentins)

  1. (US, usually) The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.

dentin meaning in Tamil

dentin in Tamil

பல்திசு

Forms of dentin

pluraldentins
alternative formdentine

Origin of dentin

From French dentine, from Latin dens (“tooth”) + English chemical suffix -in / -ine.

Words formed from dentin

Questions about dentin

What does dentin mean?
Dentin means the hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.
What is dentin in Tamil?
Dentin in Tamil is பல்திசு. See Dentin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dentin?
Dentin is a noun.
What is the plural of dentin?
The plural of dentin is dentins.

Words near dentin in the dictionary

  1. dentillated
  2. dentilled
  3. dentiloquist
  4. dentiloquists
  5. dentils
  6. dentin
  7. dentinal
  8. dentinal fiber
  9. dentinal fibers
  10. dentinal fibre
  11. dentinal fibres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dentin (page history and authors); dentin (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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