MEANING
A small tooth or toothlike projection.
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- dermal denticle
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Denticles roughened the creature’s skin.
A denticle caught the fabric.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular denticle; plural denticles. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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