Canine+tooth

  • 51Tooth — The structures within the mouth that allow for biting and chewing. Teeth have different shapes, depending on their purpose. The sharp canine and frontal teeth allow for biting, while the flattened, thick molars in the back of the mouth provide… …

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  • 52tooth — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fang, tusk, canine, incisor, molar, cuspid, bicuspid, eyetooth, grinder (inf.), chopper (inf.); tine, cog; taste, relish; fondness. See sharpness, convexity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A dental process]… …

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  • 53tooth — noun 1 individual tooth ADJECTIVE ▪ broken, chipped, missing ▪ bad, decayed, rotten ▪ loose ▪ …

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  • 54canine — Synonyms and related words: Seeing Eye dog, amphibian, aquatic, baby tooth, bandog, bicuspid, biped, bitch, bowwow, bucktooth, cannibal, carnivore, cosmopolite, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 55tooth — Synonyms and related words: Vandyke, aftertaste, asperity, baby tooth, bicuspid, bitter, blaze, bucktooth, bumpiness, canine, chop, choppiness, coarsen, cog, comb, crag, cragginess, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, crown, cuspid, cut, cutter,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 56tooth — n.; pl. teeth one of the hard structures in the mouth used for cutting and chewing food. Each tooth is embedded in a socket in part of the jawbone (mandible or maxilla) known as the alveolar bone (or alveolus), to which it is attached by the… …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 57canine — 1. adjective ˈkeɪˌnaɪnˈkæˌnaɪn/ˈkeɪˌnaɪn/ a) Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs. We carried the dog round to the yard, and I examined his head. . . . I accepted the care of the canine patient. b) Dog like. In many respects she made me an… …

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  • 58canine — adj. Canine is used with these nouns: ↑companion, ↑tooth …

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  • 59canine — n. the third tooth from the midline of each jaw. There are thus four canines, two in each jaw, in both the permanent and primary (deciduous) dentitions. It is known colloquially as the eye tooth …

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  • 60canine — a large, pointed, conical or blade like tooth. Usually distinctly larger than surrounding teeth and few in number. Some are hinged to permit entry but hinder escape of prey. Often found in carnivores, e.g. in some Blenniidae, Serranidae, Labridae …

    Dictionary of ichthyology