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PRONUNCIATION OF DENTALIA

dentalia  [dɛnˈteɪlɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DENTALIA

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Dentalia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DENTALIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dentalia

Dentalium shell

The word dentalium or dentalia (plural), as commonly used by Native American artists and anthropologists, refers to tooth shells or tusk shells used in indigenous jewelry, adornment, and commerce in western Canada and the United States. These tusk shells are a kind of seashell, specifically the shells of scaphopod mollusks. The name "dentalium" is based on the scientific name for the genus Dentalium, but because the taxonomy has changed over time, not all of the species used are still placed in that genus; however, all of the species are certainly in the family Dentaliidae. The use of these shells by Inuit, First Nations, and Native Americans is well known. This usage is found along the western coast of Canada and along the Pacific Ocean coast of the northwest United States extending southward to Southern California. Traditionally, the shells of Antalis pretiosum (previously known as Dentalium pretiosum, the precious dentalium (a species which occurs...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DENTALIA


alalia
æˈleɪlɪə
aralia
əˈreɪlɪə
Athalia
əˈθeɪlɪə
Australia
ɒˈstreɪlɪə
bacchanalia
ˌbækəˈneɪlɪə
Castalia
kæˈsteɪlɪə
echolalia
ˌɛkəʊˈleɪlɪə
galea
ˈɡeɪlɪə
generalia
ˌdʒɛnəˈreɪlɪə
genitalia
ˌdʒɛnɪˈteɪlɪə
Lupercalia
ˌluːpɜːˈkeɪlɪə
marginalia
ˌmɑːdʒɪˈneɪlɪə
novalia
nəʊˈveɪlɪə
palea
ˈpeɪlɪə
paraphernalia
ˌpærəfəˈneɪlɪə
personalia
ˌpɜːsəˈneɪlɪə
psoralea
səˈreɪlɪə
realia
rɪˈeɪlɪə
regalia
rɪˈɡeɪlɪə
Westphalia
wɛstˈfeɪlɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DENTALIA

dental
dental clinic
dental floss
dental hygiene
dental hygienist
dental nurse
dental orthopaedics
dental orthopedics
dental plaque
dental plate
dental receptionist
dental records
dental surgeon
dental surgery
dental technician
dentality
dentalium
dentally
dentaria
dentary

WORDS THAT END LIKE DENTALIA

battalia
Commonwealth of Australia
coprolalia
glossolalia
Himalia
inter alia
Italia
New Australia
North Rhine-Westphalia
Order of Australia
penetralia
physalia
qualia
rosalia
Saturnalia
Somalia
South Australia
sponsalia
Thalia
Western Australia

Synonyms and antonyms of dentalia in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dentalia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DENTALIA

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The translations of dentalia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dentalia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

dentalia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dentalia
570 millions of speakers

English

dentalia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dentalia
380 millions of speakers
ar

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dentalia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

dentalia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dentalia
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Translator English - Bengali

dentalia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dentales
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dentalia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dent
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dentalia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dentalia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dentalia
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

dentalia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dentalia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दाता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

DENTALIA
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Dentalia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dentalia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dentalia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dentalia
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

dentalia
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Dentalia
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Dentalia
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

dentalia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dentalia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DENTALIA»

The term «dentalia» is normally little used and occupies the 141.593 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DENTALIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dentalia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DENTALIA»

Discover the use of dentalia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dentalia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory
the “dentalia people” (Teit 1909, p. 759). Hence, in order to protect their monopoly and to give it more prestige in their neighbors' eyes, the Chilcotin had a vested interest in making others believe that they possessed an inexhaustible quantity ...
Paul A. Erickson, Liam D. Murphy, 2013
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First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians
One basic unit of currency was dentalia: tubular, tusk-shaped shells, often scrimshawed or intricately wrapped in black and red snakeskin and a fleck of scarlet woodpecker scalp. Dentalia shells come in different sizes, the smaller ones being ...
L. Frank, Kim Hogeland, 2007
3
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
ctghl fxiaal* dcniatium ABOVE The dentalium is a marine invertebrate with a hard white shell of a tapering, slightly curved horn shape. Greatly prized for decorative purposes and thus commanding a high value in trade, dentalia formed an ...
‎2005
4
Bani Surmah: An Early Bronze Age Graveyard in Pusht-i Kuh, ...
The different types of worked shell, particularly as personal ornaments (Conus, Dentalia and Engina mendicaria), have been treated in the chapter of the beads. In the original files sometimes is simply mentioned the presence of shells, ...
E. Haerinck, B. Overlaet, 2006
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Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture ...
If we turn to ethnography and look at the Yurok, far and away the best described of the Oregon Coast/Northwest California peoples (and Kroeber's own “people,” if indeed he had such), then one answer is dentalia. Dentalia were very important ...
Edited by Quentin Mackie, Gary Coupland, and R.G. Matson, Quentin Mackie, Gary Coupland, 2011
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The View from Afar
goat horns used as claws, why had they to pick clam siphons out of the many objects in their natural environment which could have fulfilled the same function? Why, finally, did the Bella Bella seem uninterested in the origin of dentalia shells,  ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1992
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The Chinook Indians: Traders of the Lower Columbia River
These sea shells, referred to as dentalia or hiqua (a word thought to refer originally to a string of dentalia of specific size and length but now commonly used interchangeably with the word "dentalia") , were principally a Nootkan trade item ...
Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, 1976
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Aboriginal California: Three Studies in Culture History
... sugar pine nuts, green pigment, bows, arrowheads, manzanita berries, pelts, meat, dentalia, obsidian Obsidian Juniper beads, basketry caps, salt, dentalia, white deer skins, woodpecker scalps, whole Olivella shells, large obsidian blades, ...
Robert Fleming Heizer, 1966
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People of the Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission
Alexander Ross discusses dentalia use on the lower Columbia in the second decade of the nineteenth century: The circulating medium in use among these people is a small white shell called higua [more usual rendition: 'hiaqua' in Chinook ...
Robert Boyd, 2004
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Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations
The Tsilhqot'in, who wore dentalia ornaments in their ears and noses, were the conduit for dentalia from the coast to the Secwepemc, and from them into the interior of the continent. The trade in dentalia was such an important part of their ...
John Sutton Lutz

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DENTALIA»

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New sculpture at Vancouver's Stanley Park tells rich story of BC's past
She's wearing a woven blanket that her people used. Her dentalia shell headdress and dentalia shell scarf show her status as a noble woman. «Vancouver Sun, Apr 15»
2
Editor's Notebook: Essential memories of a Chinook friend will be …
Then the dentalia of the deceased are distributed,” according to the old ... In the years still ahead, I will sometimes take his dentalia from the box ... «Daily Astorian, Feb 15»
3
Morgan Green combines combines indigenous and western …
... Without Alder—Necklace), whose dangling eagle-claw forms in oxidized silver are complemented by long, slender dentalia shells. Working ... «Straight.com, Sep 14»
4
Woman Inspired To Make Fish Skin Baskets
So my baskets have this hard surface to the skin and then I decorate them with beads, abalone shells, and dentalia shells, which represent the ... «SitNews, Jul 14»
5
Salim Ahmed Bugshan & Partners Trading Company
Zahid Tractor and Heavy Machinery Company · Dentalia Clinics · Samama Company · Samama Medical. Advertisement. Panel. Reading List ... «Zawya, May 14»
6
Dental Medical Tourism Venture in Mexico
The first Dentalia clinic was opened in 2006 and since then the ... done and as the leader in the dental industry in Mexico, Dentalia has and will ... «The Yucatan Times, May 14»
7
The Navy's War on the Pacific Ocean
... deerskin robes, and decorated with dentalia, eagle feathers and whalebones. Here was the Great White Father again, sailing down the coast, ... «CounterPunch, Apr 14»
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Dental Clinics in Mexico in High Demand from US Patients
In Tijuana and Mexico City, dentalia serves over 100,000 patients a year. The company believes in providing only the finest that dentistry has to ... «PR Web, Feb 14»
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Early 1900s Native American Kiowa cradleboard could realize …
An exceptional Plateau dentalia buckskin dress in very good condition, done with seed beads, pony beads, tube beads, cut-in fringed edges ... «ArtfixDaily, Jul 13»
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'Winter Count' brings indigenous storytelling method to the Gospel
The 16 dentalia at the bottom are scaphopod mollusk shells. ENS photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg. Some Sioux have revived the Sun Dance, ... «Episcopal News Service, Jun 12»

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