Another word for tooth
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Noun
A dental process
- A dead or partly dead tree that is still standing.
- A tree or a part of a tree that is sunken in or protrudes above a body of water and is a danger to navigation.
- A snaggletooth.
- A hard, smooth, yellowish-white substance composed primarily of dentin that forms the tusks of the elephant.
- A similar substance forming the tusks or teeth of certain other mammals, such as the walrus.
- A tusk, especially an elephant's tusk.
- Used to express mild reproof, disapproval, or admonition.
- An elongated pointed tooth, usually one of a pair, extending outside of the mouth in certain animals such as the walrus, elephant, or wild boar.
- A long projecting tooth or toothlike part.
- To gore or dig with the tusks or a tusk.
- Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects its poison.
- Any of the canine teeth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.
- A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth.
A toothlike or tooth-shaped object
- The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.
- A thing or part that extends outward beyond a prevailing line or surface:
- A plan for an anticipated course of action:
- The usually short end remaining after something bigger has been used up:
- Something cut short or arrested in development:
- The part of a check or receipt retained as a record.
- A sharp or tapered end:
- An object having a sharp or tapered end:
- A tapering extension of land projecting into water; a peninsula, cape, or promontory.
Idioms:
get or sink one's teeth into
in-the-teeth-of
show one's teeth
Synonym Study
- Fang refers either to one of the long, sharp teeth with which meat-eating animals tear their prey or to the long, hollow tooth through which poisonous snakes inject their venom
- Tusk refers to a long, pointed, enlarged tooth projecting outside the mouth in certain animals, as the elephant, wild boar, and walrus, and used for digging or as a weapon
- Tooth is the general, inclusive word for the hard, bonelike structures in the jaws of most vertebrates used for biting and chewing
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