CANINE TOOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canine tooth mean? 

• CANINE TOOTH (noun)
  The noun CANINE TOOTH has 1 sense:

1. one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

  Familiarity information: CANINE TOOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANINE TOOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

canine; canine tooth; cuspid; dogtooth; eye tooth; eyetooth

Hypernyms ("canine tooth" is a kind of...):

tooth (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "canine tooth"):

fang (canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey)

 Context examples 

In particular, by some trick of the light, the canine teeth looked longer and sharper than the rest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This breed has a long muzzle and robust jaws with extremely strong canine teeth.

(Dachshund, NCI Thesaurus)

The eyes, which were under thick and heavy brows, were bestial and ferocious, and as it opened its mouth to snarl what sounded like a curse at me I observed that it had curved, sharp canine teeth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gums, the long, sharp, canine teeth showed out strangely; he answered:—Because your peasant is at heart a coward and a fool!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"See," he went on, "see, they are even sharper than before. With this and this"—and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below it—"the little children can be bitten.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They were all of the thinnest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red underlip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)