dentiparous
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editdentiparous (not comparable)
- tooth-bearing
- Synonym: dentigerous
- 1866, Richard Owen, On the Anatomy of Vertebrates:
- A thin compact floor of bone separates this groove, and the sockets anterior to it, from the large cavity of the ramus of the jaw; it is pierced by bloodvessels for the supply of the pulps of the growing teeth and the vascular dentiparous membrane which lines the alveolar cavities.