tooth vs adult tooth

adult tooth vs tooth

tooth and adult tooth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tooth	Yes	No	No	No
adult tooth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, adult tooth is a hyponym of tooth; that is, adult tooth is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tooth:

tooth: hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
adult tooth: any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age

Other hyponyms of tooth include fang, tusk, conodont, chopper, pearly, carnassial tooth, anterior, front tooth, back tooth, posterior, malposed tooth, permanent tooth, baby tooth, deciduous tooth, milk tooth, primary tooth, canine, canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth, bicuspid, premolar, incisor, grinder, molar.

tooth (noun)	adult tooth (noun)
a means of enforcement	any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
something resembling the tooth of an animal
one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

Difference between tooth and adult tooth

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.