dentalium

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium.
    — 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.

词形变化

dentalia plural dentaliums plural

词源

Borrowed from translingual Dentalium, from Latin dentālis (“dental”), dēns (“tooth”), Proto-Italic *dents and Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts.
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