of an infant whose teeth have not yet developed; occurring during or pertaining to this period of development
2.
of or pertaining to the Predentata (also called Ornithischia), an order of dinosaur possessing a predentary bone
Examples of 'predentate' in a sentence
predentate
Species from the predentate mucosa as well as new microbial assemblages were identified in the primary supragingival and subgingival microbiomes.
Matthew R. Mason, Stephanie Chambers, Shareef M. Dabdoub, Sarat Thikkurissy, PurnimaS. Kumar 2018, 'Characterizing oral microbial communities across dentition states and colonizationniches', Microbiomehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0443-2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)