TOOTHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toothed mean? 

• TOOTHED (adjective)
  The adjective TOOTHED has 3 senses:

1. having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often used in combination

2. notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

3. having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

  Familiarity information: TOOTHED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOOTHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often used in combination

Context example:

saw-toothed

Similar:

buck-toothed (having protruding upper front teeth)

cogged (having cogs)

fine-tooth; fine-toothed (having fine teeth set close together)

gap-toothed (having widely spaced teeth)

saber-toothed; sabertoothed; sabre-toothed (having teeth that resemble sabers)

small-toothed (having small teeth)

toothlike (resembling a tooth)

toothy (having or showing prominent teeth)

tusked (having tusks)

Antonym:

toothless (lacking teeth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

Synonyms:

notched; saw-toothed; serrate; serrated; toothed

Similar:

rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

Synonyms:

erose; jagged; jaggy; notched; toothed

Similar:

rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)

 Context examples 

A toothed wheel designed to mesh with another toothed object and transmit motion.

(Gear Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The two dimensional shape of a toothed wheel of a machine part.

(Gear, NCI Thesaurus)

Loke's hearing abilities are on a par with the hearing of the toothed whale and the seal.

(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A succulent, fibrous plant, of the family Liliaceae, with basal leaves, having toothed or fibrous margins.

(Aloe vera, NCI Thesaurus)

After each repulse, when the old wolf sheered abruptly away from the sharp-toothed object of his desire, he shouldered against a young three- year-old that ran on his blind right side.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It argues that some Ice Age megafauna—which in North America include the woolly mammoth, saber-toothed cat and giant sloth—used ancient Tibet as a training ground for developing adaptations that allowed them to cope with a harsh climate.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

The indications would be consistent with the presence of a saber-toothed tiger, such as are still found among the breccia of our caverns; but the creature actually seen was undoubtedly of a larger and more reptilian character.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)