Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Chisel-shaped; having the character of a chisel-tooth; truncate at the end and beveled there to a sharp edge: specifically said of the incisor teeth of rodents, and the similar teeth of a few other mammals. See chisel-tooth, and cut under Geomyidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Shaped like a chisel.

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  • adjective anatomy Shaped like a chisel.

Etymologies

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Latin scalprum chisel, knife + -form.

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