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dentine

dentine is the alternative spelling of dentin.

Meaning of dentin

Noun

dentin (usually uncountable, plural dentins)

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

Forms of dentine

pluraldentines

Words formed from dentine

Questions about dentine

What is dentine the alternative spelling of?
Dentine is the alternative spelling of dentin.

Words near dentine in the dictionary

  1. dentinal fibre
  2. dentinal fibres
  3. dentinal tubule
  4. dentinal tubules
  5. dentinally
  6. dentine
  7. dentines
  8. denting
  9. dentinitis
  10. dentinoblast
  11. dentinoblasts

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