dentin

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Etymology

From French dentine, from Latin dens (“tooth”) + English chemical suffix -in / -ine.

Noun

dentin (usually uncountable, plural dentins) (American spelling)

  2. The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.

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dentin

  1. inflection of dentar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
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