dental \den"tal\ (d[e^]n"tal), a. [L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf.
   F. dental. See Tooth.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental
      surgery.
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   2. (Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain
      articulations and the letters representing them; as, d and
      t are dental letters.
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   Dental formula (Zool.), a brief notation used by zoologists
      to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal.

   Dental surgeon, a dentist.
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	Dental \Den"tal\, n. [Cf. F. dentale. See Dental, a.]
   1. An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.
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   2. (Zool.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a
      curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.
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	dental
    adj 1: of or relating to the teeth; "dental floss"
    2: of or relating to dentistry; "dental student"
    n 1: a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the
         gum ridge [syn: alveolar consonant, dental consonant,
         alveolar, dental]

	

	118 Moby Thesaurus words for "dental":
   accented, allopathic, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
   apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bicuspid,
   bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, chiropodic,
   chiropractic, clinical, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant,
   dentiform, dentoid, dissimilated, dorsal, exodontic, fanged, flat,
   front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high,
   homeopathic, hydropathic, iatric, intonated, labial, labiodental,
   labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, medical,
   mid, molar, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized,
   naturopathic, neurological, obstetric, occlusive, odontoid, open,
   orthodontic, orthopedic, osteopathic, oxytone, palatal,
   palatalized, pediatric, periodontic, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
   phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic,
   prosthodontic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, snaggle-toothed,
   snaggled, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, surgical,
   syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, toothed, toothlike,
   toothy, tusked, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar,
   vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide