DENTITION
Dictionary entry overview: What does dentition mean?
• DENTITION (noun)
The noun DENTITION has 2 senses:
1. the eruption through the gums of baby teeth
2. the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
Familiarity information: DENTITION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DENTITION (noun)
Meaning:
The eruption through the gums of baby teeth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
dentition; odontiasis; teething
Hypernyms ("dentition" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dentition"):
precocious dentition (teething at an earlier age than expected)
Meaning:
The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
teeth; dentition
Hypernyms ("dentition" is a kind of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
Meronyms (members of "dentition"):
tooth (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dentition"):
primary dentition (dentition of deciduous teeth)
secondary dentition (dentition of permanent teeth)
Holonyms ("dentition" is a part of...):
mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris (the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge)
