tooth

n.

1. A dental process

   fang, tusk, saber-tooth, tush, ivory, snag, artificial tooth, false tooth, edontate process, calcerous process, bony appendage.

   Types of human teeth include: incisor, canine, cuspid, eyetooth*, bicuspid, premolar, first bicuspid, second bicuspid, molar*, grinder*, first molar, second molar, third molar, wisdom tooth; deciduous teeth, baby teeth*, permanent teeth.

2. A toothlike or tooth-shaped object

   point, stub, projection; see gear, peg, root.

tooth is the general, inclusive word for the hard, bonelike structures in the jaws of most vertebrates used for biting and chewing; tusk refers to a long, pointed, enlarged tooth projecting outside the mouth in certain animals, as the elephant, wild boar, and walrus, and used for digging or as a weapon; fang refers either to one of the long, sharp teeth with which meat-eating animals tear their prey or to the long, hollow tooth through which poisonous snakes inject their venom

get<strong> or </strong>sink one's teeth into*

in the teeth of

long in the tooth*

show one's teeth*

throw in someone's teeth*