permanent tooth

1. 1.

   any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age

   Synonymsadult tooth

   Broadertooth

Questions about permanent tooth

What does permanent tooth mean?

permanent tooth means "any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age".

What is another word for permanent tooth?

Close synonyms include adult tooth. 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 permanent tooth a common word?

permanent 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.