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Canine tooth

Canine \Ca*nine"\, a. [L. caninus, fr. canis dog: cf. F. canin. See Hound.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the family Canid[ae], or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.

  2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.

    Canine appetite, a morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia.

    Canine letter, the letter r. See R.

    Canine madness, hydrophobia.

    Canine tooth, a tooth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developed in dogs; usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw.

Wiktionary
canine tooth

n. One of the pointed teeth behind the incisors and in front of the premolar teeth.

WordNet
canine tooth

n. one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars [syn: canine, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid]

Wikipedia
Canine tooth

In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dog teeth, fangs, or (in the case of those of the upper jaw) eye teeth, are relatively long, pointed teeth. However, they can appear more flattened, causing them to resemble incisors and leading them to be called incisiform. They developed and are used primarily for firmly holding food in order to tear it apart, and occasionally as weapons. They are often the largest teeth in a mammal's mouth. Most species that develop them normally have four per mammal, two in the upper jaw and two in the lower, separated within each jaw by its incisors; humans and dogs are examples. In most species, canines are the anterior-most teeth in the maxillary bone.

The four canines in humans are the two maxillary canines and the two mandibular canines.

Usage examples of "canine tooth".

Nezzie gave Ayla a warm hug, and then a necklace of matched and graduated spiral shells, each one separated by carefully sawed small sections of the hard hollow leg bones of arctic fox and, suspended as a pendant in front, a large canine tooth of a cave lion.

In his vision there was particular emphasis on the wolf's canine tooth, its fang.

Then he broke away the right canine tooth, that saberlike canine, some seven inches in length, and ripped open the belly of the beast, drenching the snow with blood.

Damon's finger found the sharp curve of a canine tooth, and Elena did bite now, giving it a nip like a kitten's.

Yet among the dozens of incisors he could see not a single canine tooth or tusk.

After the bone hammer, she looked over a retoucher, the canine tooth of a large cat dislodged from a jawbone she had found in the pile at the bottom of the wall, and then she checked the other pieces of bone and stone.

Out of its center jutted something white and pointed, like a canine tooth.

He had lantern jaw and protruding eyes and his lower left canine tooth was permanently outside his mouth.

She finally got a couple of rocks and carefully broke off a long canine tooth and a talon, to examine them more closely.

Under his closed lips, he ran his tongue over his long left canine tooth while he watched a beautiful blond woman dressed in blue.

It's H'ani, the chipped canine tooth, the design of ostrich shell beads on her loincloth.

His left canine tooth was darker, definitely a darker grey than it had been a month before when the dentist had drilled out the nerve, and suddenly Jordan was overwhelmed by a cold penetrating despair.