dent i rostrate (den tiros trat)

[ L.den (t-)s, = E. tooth, + rostratus, beaked, signed by Cuvier, and the term consequently fell into dis use. It is still employed, however, in a modified sense, for a superfamily group of oscine pa erine birds approximately equivalent to the turdoid Pa eres of Wallace. See Pa eres, Turd i formes. 2. In Sun devall's system of cla ification, a phalanx of the cohort Cichlomorpha: synonymous with Lan i i formes, as the name of a superfamily group embracing the shrikes and their immediate relatives. In later's arrange d), de [= Sp. den tell a do = It. den tell a to, ML. * den tell at us, equiv. to L. denticulatus, furnished with small teeth, denticulus, a little tooth: see dentil, denticle, and denticulate.] Having teeth or notches; marked with notches or indentations. Also written dentil lated. An observation made by Berard at Toulon during the then recent eclipse, "of a very fine red band, irregularly dent elated, or, as it were, creva ed here and there." A. M. Clerke , Astron, in 19th Cent., p. 90. The Syrians restricted ornament to dentel lated leaves of a conventional form deeply marked and sharply cut out. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, Int., p. xxx i.