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DOGTOOTH
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Irregular inflected form: dogteeth
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dogtooth" is a kind of...):
architectural ornament ((architecture) something added to a building to improve its appearance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
Synonyms:
canine; canine tooth; cuspid; dogtooth; eye tooth; eyetooth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dogtooth" is a kind of...):
tooth (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dogtooth"):
fang (canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated
Synonyms:
dog's-tooth violet; dogtooth; dogtooth violet
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dogtooth" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dogtooth"):
blonde lilian; Erythronium albidum; white dog's-tooth violet; white dogtooth violet (North American dogtooth having solitary white flowers with yellow centers and blue or pink exteriors)
amberbell; Erythronium americanum; trout lily; yellow adder's tongue (eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors)
Erythronium dens-canis; European dogtooth (sturdy European dogtooth with rose to mauve flowers; cultivated in many varieties)
Erythronium californicum; fawn lily (California dogtooth violet with creamy white flowers sometimes yellow-tinged)
Erythronium grandiflorum; glacier lily; snow lily (dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers)
Holonyms ("dogtooth" is a member of...):
Erythronium; genus Erythronium (perennial bulbous herbs most of northern United States: dogtooth violet; adder's tongue; trout lily; fawn lily)
