canine tooth

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Origin of canine tooth

First recorded in 1600–10

Words nearby canine tooth

canine distemper, canine leptospirosis, canine parvovirus, canines, canine spasm, canine tooth, caning, Canis Major, Canis Minor, canister, canities

How to use canine tooth in a sentence

Skull bones hinted he had a human-sized brain, but his primitive jaw had a large, apelike canine tooth.
Fossils and ancient DNA paint a vibrant picture of human origins|Erin Wayman|September 15, 2021|Science News
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.
Fossils and ancient DNA paint a vibrant picture of human origins|Erin Wayman|September 15, 2021|Science News
Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
As a means of preventing tooth decay in those cities that do fluoridate, the practice certainly looks like a success.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST

For all of the bellyaching, tooth gnashing, and public wailing, Democrats have no one to blame but themselves.
How the Lame Democrats Blew It|Goldie Taylor|November 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This award is fought over tooth-and-nail each year by political consultants from sea to shining sea.
The Strangest, Cheesiest, Most Brazenly False Political Ads of 2014|Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Me & Dog is off to a promising start and Mary Magdalene has some canine companionship.
Are You There, Nobody? It’s Me, Margaret|Candida Moss|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
An Irish housemaid who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner, found him engaged in using a tooth-brush.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
An immense number of pilgrims come here every year to pay their adoration to this divine tooth.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
If he has made the tooth of a poor man to fall out, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver.
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World|Hammurabi, King of Babylon
If a man has made the tooth of a man that is his equal to fall out, one shall make his tooth fall out.
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World|Hammurabi, King of Babylon

Medical definitions for canine tooth

canine tooth

Any of four teeth having a thick conical crown and a long conical root, adjacent to the distal surface of the lateral incisors, in both deciduous and permanent dentition.cuspid