TEETH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teeth mean? 

• TEETH (noun)
  The noun TEETH has 1 sense:

1. the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

  Familiarity information: TEETH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEETH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

dentition; teeth

Hypernyms ("teeth" is a kind of...):

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)

Meronyms (members of "teeth"):

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 "teeth"):

primary dentition (dentition of deciduous teeth)

secondary dentition (dentition of permanent teeth)

Holonyms ("teeth" is a part of...):

mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris (the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge)

 Context examples 

The teeth of one had closed upon his arm.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She must wash her teeth every day, too.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His teeth closed on Spitz’s left fore leg.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A biofilm may cover natural surfaces, such as teeth.

(Biofilm, NCI Dictionary)

Gum disease is an infection affecting the tissue that holds your teeth in the right place.

(New Link Found between Alzheimer's & Gum Disease Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“And why not?”—with a quick gleam of her white teeth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy got no farther, for Jo's hot temper mastered her, and she shook Amy till her teeth chattered in her head, crying in a passion of grief and anger...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A mineral needed for healthy teeth, bones, and other body tissues.

(Calcium, NCI Dictionary)

Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It sets my teeth on edge to think of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)