dentine

Other forms of dentine

plural

dentines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dentine

What does dentine mean?

dentine means "a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dentine?

dentine has 2 syllables: den-tine. The stress falls on "den". In IPA it is /ˈdɛntin/.

What is another word for dentine?

Close synonyms include dentin, dentin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dentine a common word?

dentine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.