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tooth pads

tooth pads is the plural of tooth pad.

Meaning of tooth pad

Noun

tooth pad (plural tooth pads)

  1. A (contiguous or segmented) patch or band, in the mouths of some fish, containing rows of teeth.
    • Teeth are concentrated on the tooth pads of the pharyngeal jaws. The pads become fused to the supporting endochondral bones, so that mechanical coupling is improved.2016, B. K. B. Berkovitz, R. P Shellis, The Teeth of Non-Mammalian Vertebrates, →ISBN, page 49

Questions about tooth pads

What is tooth pads the plural of?
Tooth pads is the plural of tooth pad.

Words near tooth pads in the dictionary

  1. tooth mugs
  2. tooth net
  3. tooth ornament
  4. tooth ornaments
  5. tooth pad
  6. tooth pads
  7. tooth powder
  8. tooth powders
  9. tooth shell
  10. tooth shells
  11. tooth socket

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