tooth vs baby tooth

baby tooth vs tooth

tooth and baby tooth both are nouns.

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

As nouns, baby tooth is a hyponym of tooth; that is, baby 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
baby tooth: one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children)

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

tooth (noun)	baby tooth (noun)
a means of enforcement	one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children)
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 baby tooth

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