canine

1. 1.

   of or relating to a pointed conical tooth

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2. 2.

   of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae

   zoology

Other forms of canine

plural

canines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about canine

What does canine mean?

canine means "one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in canine?

canine has 2 syllables: ca-nine. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˈkeɪˌnaɪn/.

What is another word for canine?

Close synonyms include canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid. 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 canine a common word?

canine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with canine?

5 words rhyme with canine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.