spoon excavator

noun

A curette with hooklike ends used to remove soft carious decay in dentistry.

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Meanings

nounspoon excavator (plural spoon excavators)

plural spoon excavators

  1. A curette with hooklike ends used to remove soft carious decay in dentistry.

Origin

From spoon + excavator.

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APA

spoon excavator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoon%20excavator

MLA

“spoon excavator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoon%20excavator. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spoon excavator,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spoon%20excavator.

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