bidental

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛntəl === Etymology 1 === From bi- +‎ dental. ==== Adjective ==== bidental (not comparable) (zoology) Having only two teeth. Synonym: bidentate (phonetics) articulated with both the upper and lower teeth. ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== bidental (plural bidentals) (zoology) An organism that has only two teeth, especially a dinosaur of the infraorder Dicynodontia. ==== See also ==== dental interdental === Etymology 2 === From Latin bidental. ==== Noun ==== bidental (plural bidentals) (historical) In Ancient Rome, a place that had been struck by lightning and consecrated and enclosed. == Latin == === Etymology === From bidēns (“two-pronged, two-toothed”), the name of the offering given by the haruspices with which the lightning was propitiated; perhaps an allusion to the forked form of lightning, +‎ -al. For the form, compare puteal (“enclosure around a well”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bɪˈdɛn.taɫ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [biˈdɛn.tal] === Noun === bidental n (genitive bidentālis); third declension a bidental (place struck by lightning and consecrated by a sacrifice) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem). ==== See also ==== puteal === References === “bidental”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bidental”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers