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predental

predental adjective: before, and in preparation for, dental education.

Adjective

predental (not comparable)

  1. Before, and in preparation for, dental education.
    • Biology and chemistry are good subjects for premedical or predental coursework.
  2. In front of the teeth.
  3. an erroneous misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre–dental surgery anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and transcoding loss of hard hyphens misinterpreted as soft hyphens.

Noun

predental (plural predentals)

  1. A person studying predentistry.

Forms of predental

Adjective
alternative formpre-dental
Noun
pluralpredentals

Origin of predental

From pre- + dental.

Words that rhyme with predental

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Questions about predental

What does predental mean?
Predental means before, and in preparation for, dental education.
What part of speech is predental?
Predental can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near predental in the dictionary

  1. predemocracy
  2. predemocratic
  3. predenaturation
  4. predenatured
  5. predendritic
  6. predental
  7. predentals
  8. predentaries
  9. predentary
  10. predentate
  11. predentin

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