baby tooth
Britishnoun
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To read letters from her family, Kit must submit to acts so violent that in one case, she loses a baby tooth, swallows it and is terrified the tooth will harm her inside.
From New York Times
When a child becomes pregnant before she’s lost her last baby tooth and the state she lives in tries to make her stay that way, there are no winners; we have all irreparably lost.
From Washington Post
The paper describes the human settlement based on a modern human baby tooth, as well as stone tools that appear to have been made by Homo sapiens.
From New York Times
Six years later, they found a partial molar—a baby tooth.
From Science Magazine
"It is the molar compared to a baby tooth," Helen laughed.
From BBC
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