MILK TOOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does milk tooth mean? 

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

1. one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILK TOOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

baby tooth; deciduous tooth; milk tooth; primary tooth

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

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

Holonyms ("milk tooth" is a part of...):

child's body (the body of a human child)

 Context examples 

Genetic analysis of the milk teeth revealed the two individuals sequenced showed no evidence of inbreeding which was occurring in the declining Neanderthal populations at the time.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

The DNA was recovered from the only human remains discovered from the era – two tiny milk teeth – that were found in a large archaeological site found in Russia near the Yana River.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

Two children’s milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)