canine

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
noun any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
adjective of or relating to a pointed conical tooth

From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, doglike, dogtooth”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.

He had been a quite different sort of canine. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
BEGINS WITH JUVENILE FLIRTATION, AND ENDS WITH CANINE CREMATION. — Post Haste, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
We had another canine misfortune while we lay there. — Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled: A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska, Hudson Stuck

canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid

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