English dictionary
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English noun: tooth | |||
| 1. | tooth (body) hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bone, os | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | adult tooth, anterior, baby tooth, back tooth, bicuspid, canine, canine tooth, carnassial tooth, chopper, conodont, cuspid, deciduous tooth, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth, fang, front tooth, grinder, incisor, malposed tooth, milk tooth, molar, pearly, permanent tooth, posterior, premolar, primary tooth, tusk | ||
| Part holonym | crown, cusp, dentin, dentine, pulp, pulp cavity, root, stump, tooth root | ||
| Member meronym | dentition, teeth | ||
| 2. | tooth (artifact) something resembling the tooth of an animal | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | projection | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cog, sprocket | ||
| Part meronym | comb, comb, power saw, saw, saw, sawing machine | ||
| 3. | tooth (animal) toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | denticle | ||
| 4. | tooth (act) a means of enforcement | ||
| Samples | The treaty had no teeth in it. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | agency, means, way | ||
| 5. | tooth (artifact) one of a number of uniform projections on a gear | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | projection | ||
| Part meronym | cogwheel, gear, gear wheel, geared wheel | ||
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