eye tooth

Questions about eye tooth

What does eye tooth mean?

eye 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 eye tooth?

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

eye tooth is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.