predentary
Zoology
adjective
Designating a bone situated in front of the dentary bone in some non-mammalian vertebrates (especially ornithischian dinosaurs).
noun
A predentary bone.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Nicholson (1844–1899), biologist and geologist.
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