"dentigerous" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, William E. Duellman, Linda Trueb, Biology of Amphibians, page 317:",
          "text": "They usually bear teeth on a dentigerous process or, occasionally, as in Hemiphractus, odontoids (projections of bone resembling teeth).",
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          "ref": "2001, Ben Z. Pilch, Head and Neck Surgical Pathology, page 203:",
          "text": "Occasionally dentigerous cysts may be lined partially or wholly by pseudostratified columnar epithelium with cilia and mucous cells.",
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          "ref": "2006, Gunther Theischinger, John Hawking, The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia, page 136:",
          "text": "Female with dentigerous plate of ovipositor moderately wide and bearing 8–12 teeth; anal appendages of female not particularly pointed (B).",
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  "word": "dentigerous"
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