bidental

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having only two teeth.
2. sıfat articulated with both the upper and lower teeth.

   “The convention for transcribing bidental fricatives, suggested in the expIPA chart, uses the appropriate glottal fricative symbol with a dental diacritic both above and below the symbol.”

3. isim An organism that has only two teeth, especially a dinosaur of the infraorder Dicynodontia.

   “The letter proceeds to state that, besides this monster, there is a great variety of remains of another new order of animals, which Mr. Bain has deginated as bidentals, from their possessing only two teeth, or rather tusks, in the upper jaw, and none whatever in the lower jaw.”

4. isim In Ancient Rome, a place that had been struck by lightning and consecrated and enclosed.

   “The bidental was a place that had been struck with lightning, and afterwards expiated by the erection of an altar and the sacrifice of sheep, hostiis bidentibus; from which last circumstance it took its name.”