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say it: fang
fang is a noun meaning "a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon
an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs
canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey
hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fang come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.