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Radula vs Teeth - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between radula and teeth

is that radula is (zoology) the rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves while teeth is .

radula

English

Noun

(radulae)
  • (zoology) The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves.
  • * 2015 , Asa H. Barber , Dun Lu , Nicola M. Pugno, "Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth", Journal of the Royal Society Interface , 18 February 2015
    • The radula end containing the first 5–10 rows of teeth showed evidence of wear from rasping over rock surfaces during feeding and was removed using dissection.

    External links

    * ("radula" on Wikipedia) ----

    teeth

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (plural only) The ability to be enforced, or to be enforced to any useful effect.

    • Synonyms

    * (plural of "tooth") chompers, pearly whites * (ability to be enforced) enforceability

    Derived terms

    * arm to the teeth * by the skin of one's teeth * cut one's teeth * get one's teeth into / sink one's teeth into * give one's eye-teeth * gnash one's teeth * grit one's teeth * in the teeth of * lie through one's teeth * set one's teeth on edge

    See also

    * toothless English irregular plurals