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Webster 1913 Edition
Odontophore
O-don′to-phore
,Noun.
[
Odonto-
+ Gr. φέρειν
to bear.] (Zool.)
A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See
Radula
. Definition 2024
odontophore
odontophore
English
Noun
odontophore (plural odontophores)
- a projection in the mouths of most molluscs; it is used, with the radula to break up food
Translations
a projection in the mouths of most molluscs
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