in botany: A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the pentandria clas of plants. The calyx is a five-parted perianthium, with small tubulated leaves; the stamina five short subulate filaments; the antherae small; the pericarpium a globular, bilocular capsule; the seeds egg-shaped, and very numerous.

**DENTILES**, or dentsils, in architecture, an ornament in corniches bearing some resemblance to teeth, particularly used in the Ionic and Corinthian orders. See Architecture.