tooth enamel

1. 1.

   hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth

   Synonymsenamel

   Broadersolid body substance

   Part ofcrown

Questions about tooth enamel

What does tooth enamel mean?

tooth enamel means "hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth".

What is another word for tooth enamel?

Close synonyms include enamel. 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 tooth enamel a common word?

tooth enamel 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.