eyetooth

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

From eye + tooth, so called because of their position directly below the eyes.

Forty teeth: namely, 10 twenty-four grinders, four eyeteeth, and twelve incisors. — Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year, E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell
She has lost a tooth, next to the eyetooth on the left?” “Yes.” “The fleur-de-lis is small, rosy in color, and looks as if efforts had been made to efface it by the application of poultices?” “Yes.” “But you say she is English?” “She is called Milady, but she may be French. — The three musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

canine, canine tooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid

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