Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun alveolar_process

1 sense of alveolar process

Sense 1
alveolar ridge, gum ridge, alveolar process -- (a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth)
       => process, outgrowth, appendage -- (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process")