adult tooth

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   any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age

   Synonymspermanent tooth

   Broadertooth

Questions about adult tooth

What does adult tooth mean?

adult tooth means "any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age".

What is another word for adult tooth?

Close synonyms include permanent tooth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adult tooth a common word?

adult tooth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.