Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BIDENTAL
BIDENTAL
Definitions of BIDENTAL
- (zoology) Having only two teeth.
- (phonetics) articulated with both the upper and lower teeth.
- (zoology) An organism that has only two teeth, especially a dinosaur of the infraorder Dicynodontia.
- (historical) In Ancient Rome, a place that had been struck by lightning and consecrated and enclosed.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BIDENTAL in a Sentence
- So called because it resembled a puteal, or wellhead, the structure enclosed a "bidental", a place that had been struck by lightning, or in one tradition the spot where the whetstone of the augur Attius Navius had stood, in the time of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus.
- Cook saw the bident as an implement that might be wielded by Jupiter, the chief god of the Roman pantheon, in relation to Roman bidental ritual, the consecration of a place struck by lightning by means of a sacrificial sheep, called a bidens because it was of an age to have two teeth.
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