tooth
- noun
- /tuːθ/
- Specialized
- I wish geese had teeth.
- tiny teeth
- small teeth
Examples
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Each one of its teeth was 15 centimeters long.
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The ancient fossil was remarkable because it still had some well-preserved teeth intact.
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Do I have something in my teeth right there?
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Lucky for him, some Sharks still have teeth left in their head.
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Your teeth are a little crooked.
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Puppies, they have little teeth.
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A fragment of a tooth, one they say couldn't have come from any bear.
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Humans have gotten to where we are not by being faster, having sharper teeth or stronger muscles.
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It doesn't have any hair, the ears are smaller, and its teeth are a little bit deformed.
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She's a very, very bitty puppy and it hurts because her puppy teeth are like little razors.
Idioms
To punish someone in the same way they hurt another person
Compounds
- Baby Talk
An imaginary person who takes a child's lost baby tooth and leaves money under the pillow
- Specialized
Damage to a tooth's hard surface caused by bacteria that often makes a hole
- Specialized
A child's baby tooth that falls out and is replaced by an adult tooth
- Specialized
A tooth that cannot come through the gum because other teeth block it
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A large sharp tooth in meat-eating mammals for cutting meat from bone
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A nerve disease that runs in families and makes the muscles of the hands and lower legs weak and thin
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A small plant that grows in woods and makes pretty spring flowers and is grown in gardens
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A tree from eastern North America with large leaves that have rough edges and light bark
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A small surgical tool that has tiny teeth at the tips and holds delicate body tissue
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A sea animal that has a long thin shell open at both ends and a foot for digging in sand
A North American spring flower with white petals and a yellow center
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tooth comes from the same old German word toth, and people began to use it for any small hard or pointed part in an animal that looks like a tooth, for example the tiny teeth on a snail's scraping tongue that help it eat.