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toothpad

toothpad is the alternative form 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

Forms of toothpad

pluraltoothpads

Questions about toothpad

What is toothpad the alternative form of?
Toothpad is the alternative form of tooth pad.

Words near toothpad in the dictionary

  1. Toothmans
  2. toothmark
  3. toothmarks
  4. toothmug
  5. toothmugs
  6. toothpad
  7. toothpads
  8. toothpaste
  9. toothpaste is out of the tube
  10. toothpasted
  11. toothpastes

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