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dentate(medicine)
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dentate(2) (iou)



dentate adjective. LME.
[Latin dentatus, from dens, dent- tooth: see -ATE2.]
Chiefly Zoology & Botany. Toothed; having toothlike projections or notches along the edge; spec. (of a leaf etc.) having sharp outwardly directed teeth.
dentated adjective = DENTATE M18.
den'tation noun the condition or fact of being dentate E19.

Belhadj, Ali (sh)




also spelled ?Ali Bel ?ajj

born งใ 1956, Tunisia

Deputy leader of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), an Algerian political party.

Born to Algerian parents, he became a high-school teacher and an imam. He and the more moderate Abbasi al-Madani registered FIS as a political party in 1989. In 1990 FIS won a majority of votes in local elections; in 1991 the Algerian government announced martial law and imprisoned Belhadj and al-Madani. In 1994 Belhadj was transferred to house arrest.