primary tooth

Questions about primary tooth

What is another word for primary tooth?

It depends which primary tooth you mean. In the sense “one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children)”, the synonyms are deciduous tooth, baby tooth, milk tooth. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of primary tooth?

WordNet records no antonym for primary tooth. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for primary tooth come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of primary tooth

• Full entry for primary toothAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for primary toothWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.