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Eyetooth

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A canine tooth of the upper jaw.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a canine tooth of the upper jaw

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A canine tooth of the upper jaw.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A tooth under the eye: a name given to the two canine teeth of the upper jaw, between the incisors and premolars. Also called dog-tooth.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

Word Usage

"In the procedure -- which was pioneered in Italy but was a first in the United States -- the medical team extracted Thornton's canine or "eyetooth" and surrounding bone, shaved and sculpted it, and drilled a hole into it to insert an optical cylinder lens."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tooth

Cross Reference

to have one's eye-teeth cut to cut one's eye-teeth

Variant

eyeteeth

Hyponym

fang

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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