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Another word for tooth

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Noun

  1. A dental process

  2. A toothlike or tooth-shaped object

    See also:

    root

    peg

    gear

Idioms:

    get or sink one's teeth into

    2. in-the-teeth-of

    3. long-in-the-tooth

    4. show one's teeth

    5. throw in someone'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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Sentence Examples

  • (Formula, x.l.x.) radula has a number of uniform teeth on each side of the median tooth in each transverse row.

  • Radula with a median tooth and a single FIG.

  • - Teeth of Upper Jaw of Opossum (Didelphys marsupialis), all of which are unchanged, except the third premolar, the place of which is occupied in the young animal by a molariform tooth, represented in the figure below the line of the other teeth.

  • I knew my own mind well enough and always had my own way, even if I had to fight tooth and nail for it.

  • With the exception of a narrow strip along the Canadian frontier, thunderstorm frequency is fairly high over the whole of the United States to the east of the tooth meridian.

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