tooth plural
tooth
The plural form of tooth is teeth
T tDefinitions
- noun plural tooth (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel. 1
- noun plural tooth (in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell. 1
- noun plural tooth any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth. 1
- noun plural tooth one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc. 1
- noun plural tooth Machinery. any of the uniform projections on a gear or rack by which it drives, or is driven by, a gear, rack, or worm. any of the uniform projections on a sprocket by which it drives or is driven by a chain. 1
- noun plural tooth Botany. any small, toothlike marginal lobe. one of the toothlike divisions of the peristome of mosses. 1
- noun plural tooth a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency. 1
- noun plural tooth taste, relish, or liking. 1
- noun plural tooth a surface, as on a grinding wheel or sharpening stone, slightly roughened so as to increase friction with another part. 1
- noun plural tooth a rough surface created on a paper made for charcoal drawing, watercolor, or the like, or on canvas for oil painting. 1
- noun plural tooth The teeth of something such as a comb, saw, cog, or zip are the parts that stick out in a row on its edge. 0
- noun plural tooth If you say that something such as an official group or a law has teeth, you mean that it has power and is able to be effective. 0