Dog and fox

Usage examples of canines.

Each jaw contains six pointed cutting teeth, two very sharp, recurved canines, and molars that have evolved into cutting blades.

Most important would be our canines, which are situated between the lateral incisor and the first premolar on each side of each jaw.

I might take a simple cast of your canines, I could make a pair of fangs just for you.

Sloping brow, small ears, with canines to challenge those of a lion or a plains bear.

I saw that its teeth had been replaced top and bottom with a razor-steel strip that included spikes where its canines had once been.

Because of the similarities of social structures and certain characteristics which had evolved independently in both canines and humans, a unique relationship was possible between them.

By deciding to keep and raise the wolf puppy, she became the human half of an extraordinary bond that developed between two entirely different species -- canines and humans -- a bond that would have profound and lasting effects.

Eventually unusual or aberrant canines were bred to preserve and strengthen certain traits that were desirable to humans, until the outward similarity of many dogs to the ancestral wolf was remote indeed.

The four bodies were adorned in bone fetishes, claws, the canines of beasts, and polished seashells.

His eyes were red-rimmed, the lines that bracketed his prominent canines were deeply etched into his weathered skin.

He shrieked as razorlike, overlong canines ripped open one side of his face.