"dentalium" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dentalia",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dentaliums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Jonathan C. H. King, First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America, page 138:",
          "text": "Apart from the two or three bird masks, the only other zoomorphic mask was a wolf frontlet of cedar decorated in micaceous black paint with dentalium teeth, dentalium being an important form of wealth with some of the attributes of a currency.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium."
      ],
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      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "dentalium"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "dentalium"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the genus name.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dentalia",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dentaliums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium."
      ],
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        ],
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}