Crossword clues for dogtooth
dogtooth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogtooth \Dog"tooth`\, n.; pl. Dogteeth.
See Canine tooth, under Canine.
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(Arch.) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament.
Dogtooth spar (Min.), a variety of calcite, in acute crystals, resembling the tooth of a dog. See Calcite.
Dogtooth violet (Bot.), a small, bulbous herb of the Lily family (genus Erythronium). It has two shining flat leaves and commonly one large flower. [Written also dog's-tooth violet.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A canine tooth 2 (context architecture English) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth .
WordNet
n. perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated [syn: dogtooth violet, dog's-tooth violet]
one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars [syn: canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, cuspid]
a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England
[also: dogteeth (pl)]
Wikipedia
Dogtooth may refer to:
- Dogtooth, North Dakota, United States
- Dogtooth (anatomy), a relatively long, pointed tooth
- Dogtooth (film), a 2009 Greek film
Dogtooth (, translit. Kynodontas) is a 2009 Greek film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos about a husband and wife who keep their children ignorant of the world outside their property well into adulthood. The film stars Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, and Christos Passalis.
Lanthimos' second feature film won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Usage examples of "dogtooth".
I dug up all the dogtooth violet bulbs I could find and stuffed them into my pockets.
He had shaved, gargled with a sharp mouth-wash, and now, in a battered black and white dogtooth suit, dark blue Sea Island cotton shirt and black silk knitted tie, he was walking softly, but not surreptitiously, along the corridor to the head of the stairs, the, square leather case in his left hand.
Elsewhere he saw dogtooth spar, crystallized calcite in the shape of small pyramids.
I leapt up the bank, slipped, and my face went down in a patch of dogtooth violets.
A mound of sort of fluffy mashed cattail tubers, mushrooms, and dogtooth violet bulbs, smothered in gravy thickened with acorn powder.
I had no idea that one could now eat Dogtooth Rock or Ganister or Mealing Stone.
Each driver's mouth, Answering her silly jokes, he gasped at after The cabin-door slammed shut: the dogteeth showed.
She could even feel the eye-teeth - her dogteeth - curving up through pink-sheathing gums, cutting the flesh!