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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bicuspid

Bicuspid \Bi*cus"pid\, Bicuspidate \Bi*cus"pid*ate\, a. [See pref. Bi-, and Cuspidate.] Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; -- said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.

Bicuspid

Bicuspid \Bi*cus"pid\, n. (Anat.) One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bicuspid

1826, "having two parts," from bi- + Latin cuspidem "cusp, point." As a noun, short for bicuspid molar, attested from 1837.

Wiktionary
bicuspid

a. Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc. n. A tooth with two cusps; a premolar tooth. (jump a tooth s)

WordNet
bicuspid

adj. having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth); "bicuspid teeth"; "bicuspid leaves" [syn: bicuspidate]

bicuspid

n. a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars [syn: premolar]

Usage examples of "bicuspid".

About six months ago, it was, when one of my top left bicuspids went off like it had a fire lit inside it.

I have returned to you because of your knowledge of chloroform and skill with the anaesthetic drug, yet were you to tell me you needs must extract this accursed bicuspid with no such alleviating anodyne, I should not hesitate in begging you to proceed.

She removed a temporary cap from the second bicuspid on the lower left side and replaced it with the porcelain cap that had been delivered by the lab that morning.

Finished, she gave him a mirror, so he could admire his new bicuspid cap.

Even toothache, to which he is subject, Tom ascribes to a malignant fiend, so he asks for a pin which, without a wince, he forces into the decaying bicuspid.

When they thanked him, he flashed an enormous smile distinguished by a solid gold bicuspid.

The female kin finished a yawn that stretched clear back to her third bicuspids, then sat down and gravely offered Ariel her paw.

It had a lot of rabbit genes to enable it to survive in its sparse environmentits "hooves" still retained vestigial claws from the toes they were derived from, and its "horns" were sidetracked bicuspids, channeled up through the skulland its breathing apparatus owed a lot to porpoises.