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Noun tooth has 5 senses
- tooth - hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
--1 is a kind of bone, os
--1 is a member of dentition, teeth
--1 has parts:
--1 has particulars: | | fang; tusk; conodont; chopper, pearly; carnassial tooth; front tooth, anterior; back tooth, posterior; malposed tooth; permanent tooth, adult tooth; primary tooth, deciduous tooth, baby tooth, milk tooth; canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid; premolar, bicuspid; incisor; molar, grinder |
- tooth - something resembling the tooth of an animal
--2 is a kind of projection
--2 is a part of
--2 has particulars: cog, sprocket
- tooth - toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
--3 is a kind of structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
--3 has particulars: denticle
- tooth - a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"
--4 is a kind of means, agency, way
- tooth - one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
--5 is a kind of projection
--5 is a part of gear, gear wheel, cogwheel
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