dentaliumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dentalium (plural dentalia or dentaliums)

1. Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium.
   • 1999, Jonathan C. H. King, First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America, page 138:

     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.

参考

• Dentalium (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dentalium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Dentalium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• datum line, luminated, malunited