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odontophore

[ oh-don-tuh-fawr, -fohr ]

noun

Zoology.
  1. a structure in the mouth of most mollusks over which the radula is drawn backward and forward in the process of breaking up food.


odontophore

/ ˌɒdɒnˈtɒfərəl; ɒˈdɒntəˌfɔː /

noun

  1. an oral muscular protrusible structure in molluscs that supports the radula
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • odontophoral, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·Dz·ٴDZ·· [oh-don-, tof, -er-, uh, l], ·Dz·ٴDZ··Ա [oh-don-, tof, -, uh, -rahyn, -er-in], dDz·ٴDZo·dzܲ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of odontophore1

First recorded in 1865–70, odontophore is from the Greek word ǻDzԳٴDZóDz bearing teeth. See odonto-, -phore
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Example Sentences

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Indeed, were it not for their retention of the characteristic odontophore we should have little or no indication that such forms as Phyllirho� and Limapontia really belong to the Mollusca at all.

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The interesting little Rhodope veranyii, which has no odontophore, has been associated by systematists both with these simplified Opisthobranchs and with Rhabdocoel Planarians.

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The odontophore is powerfully developed; the radular sac is extraordinarily long, lying coiled in a space between the mass of the liver and the muscular foot.

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The odontophore also is remarkably developed, its lateral teeth being mobile, and it serves as an efficient organ for attacking the other pelagic forms on which the Heteropoda prey.

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Our figure of the nervous system of Aplysia does not give the small pair of buccal ganglia which are, as in all glossophorous Molluscs, present upon the nerves passing from the cerebral region to the odontophore.

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