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TEETHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The eruption through the gums of baby teeth
Synonyms:
dentition; odontiasis; teething
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("teething" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teething"):
precocious dentition (teething at an earlier age than expected)
Derivation:
teethe (grow teeth; cut the baby teeth)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb teethe
