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canine tooth
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Origin of canine tooth1
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Example Sentences
These included a relatively flat face and fairly small canine teeth.
He also had a primitive jaw and large, apelike canine teeth.
One day in 1959, while an ill Louis stayed behind in camp, Mary discovered a skull with small canine teeth like Australopithecus.
Skull bones hinted he had a human-sized brain, but his primitive jaw had a large, apelike canine tooth.
He described the fossil as an ape like no other, one with some distinctly humanlike features, including a relatively flat face and fairly small canine teeth.
He had a large crooked canine tooth on each side the upper jaw, which reached below the under.
Unicuspid, ū-ni-kus′pid, adj. having but one cusp, as an incisor or canine tooth.
Thus the power of uncovering the canine tooth on one side differs much in different persons.
He was missing a canine tooth and it made him look even more sketchy.
The canine tooth of this animal is the most perfect instrument for piercing and dividing flesh known.
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