carnassial tooth

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   the last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of a carnivore; having sharp edges for cutting flesh

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Questions about carnassial tooth

What does carnassial tooth mean?

carnassial tooth means "the last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of a carnivore; having sharp edges for cutting flesh".

Is carnassial tooth a common word?

carnassial 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.