Definition of tooth

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Tooth (n.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant.

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Crenation :: Crenation (n.) A rounded tooth on the edge of a leaf.
Bi- :: Bi- () In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc..
Tusk :: Tusk (n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth..
Bucktooth :: Bucktooth (n.) Any tooth that juts out.
Red-gum :: Red-gum (n.) An eruption of red pimples upon the face, neck, and arms, in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus..
Paragnathus :: Paragnathus (n.) One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids..
Gustable :: Gustable (v.) Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory.
Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle..
Tenon :: Tenon (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk..
Combbroach :: Combbroach (n.) A tooth of a wool comb.
Smilodon :: Smilodon (n.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.
Picktooth :: Picktooth (n.) A toothpick.
Canine :: Canine (a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.
Dentirostral :: Dentirostral (a.) Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak..
Conodont :: Conodont (n.) A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids..
Tooth :: Tooth (v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4..
Odontoblast :: Odontoblast (n.) One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.
Stump :: Stump (n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom..
Carnassial :: Carnassial (n.) A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in many carnivores..
Tine :: Tine (n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler..
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