dentaliumn.

Brit.

/dɛnˈteɪlɪəm/, U.S.

/dɛnˈteɪliəm/

Forms: Plural dentalia.

Etymology: modern Latin (Linnæus Systema Naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) I. 785), < Latin dentālis, < dens, dent-em tooth.

A tooth-shell of the genus so named (cf. dental n. 4). Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Scaphopoda > [noun] > member of genus Dentalium

hake's tooth1584

antal1657

dental1678

tooth-shell?1711

tusk-shell1825

dentalium1864

tusk1916

1864 Proc. Zool. Soc. 137 The value of the Dentalium depends upon its length.

1864 Proc. Zool. Soc. 138 At one period, perhaps a remote one, in the history of the inland Indians these Dentalia were worn as ornaments.

1913 B. B. Woodward Life of Mollusca iv. 55 The Dentalium, again, buries in the sand, leaving only the apex of the shell protruding.

1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 July 21/5 The effort to secure the dentalium at seacoast places, and its employment so widely by peoples far removed from the seacoast means that much more than merely ornamental value was placed upon it.

1931 Antiquity 5 431 Dentalium and pusiostoma shells are the most numerous.

1932 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 62 . 267 Two skeletons..had head-dresses of dentalium shells.

1938 Nature 19 Feb. 306/2 They had necklaces, too, made of dentalium, alternating with ‘twin’ pendants, which seem to me to imitate the canines of deer.

1960 K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land ii. 38 At ῾Ain Mallaha..a burial closely resembling that of Mount Carmel, with a crown of dentalia shells, was made in a pit lined with plaster.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dentalium
释义	dentaliumn. Brit. /dɛnˈteɪlɪəm/, U.S. /dɛnˈteɪliəm/ Forms: Plural dentalia. Etymology: modern Latin (Linnæus Systema Naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) I. 785), < Latin dentālis, < dens, dent-em tooth. A tooth-shell of the genus so named (cf. dental n. 4). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Scaphopoda > [noun] > member of genus Dentalium hake's tooth1584 antal1657 dental1678 tooth-shell?1711 tusk-shell1825 dentalium1864 tusk1916 1864 Proc. Zool. Soc. 137 The value of the Dentalium depends upon its length. 1864 Proc. Zool. Soc. 138 At one period, perhaps a remote one, in the history of the inland Indians these Dentalia were worn as ornaments. 1913 B. B. Woodward Life of Mollusca iv. 55 The Dentalium, again, buries in the sand, leaving only the apex of the shell protruding. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 July 21/5 The effort to secure the dentalium at seacoast places, and its employment so widely by peoples far removed from the seacoast means that much more than merely ornamental value was placed upon it. 1931 Antiquity 5 431 Dentalium and pusiostoma shells are the most numerous. 1932 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 62 . 267 Two skeletons..had head-dresses of dentalium shells. 1938 Nature 19 Feb. 306/2 They had necklaces, too, made of dentalium, alternating with ‘twin’ pendants, which seem to me to imitate the canines of deer. 1960 K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land ii. 38 At ῾Ain Mallaha..a burial closely resembling that of Mount Carmel, with a crown of dentalia shells, was made in a pit lined with plaster. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864
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