ODONTIASIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does odontiasis mean? 

• ODONTIASIS (noun)
  The noun ODONTIASIS has 1 sense:

1. the eruption through the gums of baby teeth

  Familiarity information: ODONTIASIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODONTIASIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The eruption through the gums of baby teeth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

dentition; odontiasis; teething

Hypernyms ("odontiasis" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "odontiasis"):

precocious dentition (teething at an earlier age than expected)