canine tooth

1. 1.

   one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

   Synonymscanineeyetootheye toothdogtoothcuspid

   Broadertooth

   Narrowerfang

Questions about canine tooth

What does canine tooth mean?

canine tooth means "one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars".

What is another word for canine tooth?

Close synonyms include canine, 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 tooth a common word?

canine 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.