dentilegus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dentĭlĕgus, i. m. [dens-lego],

one who picks up his teeth , sc. after they have been knocked out; a tooth-gatherer , a comic word: dentilegos omnis mortalis faciam, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 18.