tooth vs anterior

anterior vs tooth

tooth and anterior both are nouns.

tooth is not an adjective while anterior is an adjective.

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

As nouns, anterior is a hyponym of tooth; that is, anterior 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
anterior: a tooth situated at the front of the mouth

Other hyponyms of tooth include fang, tusk, conodont, chopper, pearly, carnassial tooth, front tooth, back tooth, posterior, malposed tooth, adult 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)	anterior (noun)
a means of enforcement	a tooth situated at the front of the mouth
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

tooth (adjective)	anterior (adjective)
	of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
	earlier in time

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