dentin

English

Alternative forms

• dentine

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Translations

material of a tooth

• Catalan: dentina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牙本質／牙本质 (zh) (yáběnzhì), 牙本质 (zh) (yáběnzhì)

• Czech: zubovina f
• Finnish: hammasluu
• French: dentine (fr) f
• German: Dentin (de) n
• Inuktitut: ᑭᒍᑎᐅᑉ ᓴᐅᓂᐅᔭᖓ (kicotiop saonioyanga)
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• Irish: déidín m
• Italian: dentina (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ac (ku) f

• Maori: matūniho
• Polish: zębina (pl) f
• Russian: дентин (ru) m (dentin)
• Slovak: zubovina
• Spanish: dentina (es) f
• Welsh: dentin m

Anagrams

• Dinnet, dinnet, indent, intend, tinned