Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dentition
2 senses of dentition
Sense 1
teething, dentition, odontiasis -- (the eruption through the gums of baby teeth)
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")
Sense 2
dentition, teeth -- (the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal)
=> set -- (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth")