Fang definition
Any of the canine teeth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.
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A member of a people inhabiting Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon.
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The Bantu language of the Fang.
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Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects its poison.
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The pointed part of something.
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One of the long, pointed teeth with which meat-eating animals seize and tear their prey; canine tooth.
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One of the long, hollow or grooved teeth through which poisonous snakes inject their venom.
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The root of a tooth.
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A member of an African people living in N Gabon, S Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea.
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The Bantu language of this people.
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Any of the hollow or grooved teeth of a venomous snake with which it injects venom.
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A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth of a carnivorous animal, such as a dog or wolf, with which it seizes and tears its prey.
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The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.
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A fanglike structure, especially a chelicera of a venomous spider.
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A long, pointed tooth in vertebrate animals or a similar structure in spiders, used to seize prey and sometimes to inject venom. The fangs of a poisonous snake, for example, have a hollow groove through which venom flows.
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Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
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(mining) A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
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(rare, in the plural) Cage-shuts.
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To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
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A second, only distantly related language of Africa.
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A long, sharp, pointed tooth, especially a canine tooth.
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The root of a tooth or a pronglike division of such a root.
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A fanglike structure, especially a chelicera of a venomous spider.
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Other Word Forms
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Singular:
fang
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fangsOrigin of fang
- Middle English booty, spoils, something seized from Old English pag- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English fang, feng (“a catching, capture, seizing”), from Old English fang, feng (“grip, embrace, grasp, grasping, capture, prey, booty, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *fangą, *fangiz, *fanhiz (“catch, catching, seizure”), from *fanhaną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ǵ- (“to fasten”). Cognate with Scots fang (“that which is taken, capture, catch, prey, booty”), Dutch vang (“a catch”), Low German fangst (“a catch”), German Fang (“a catch, capture, booty”), Swedish fång, fångst, Icelandic fang. Related also to Latin pangere (“to solidify, drive in”), Albanian mpij (“to benumb, stiffen”), Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to stiffen, firm up”), Sanskrit पाशयति (pāśáyati, “(s)he binds”).
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English fangen, from Old English fōn (“to take, grasp, seize, catch, capture, make prisoner, receive, accept, assume, undertake, meet with, encounter”), and Old Norse fanga (“to fetch, capture”), both from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną, *fangōną (“to catch, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”). Cognate with West Frisian fange (“to catch”), Dutch vangen (“to catch”), German fangen (“to catch”), Danish fange (“to catch”), Albanian peng (“to hinder, hold captive”).
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