tooth vs canine

canine vs tooth

tooth and canine both are nouns.

tooth is not an adjective while canine is an adjective.

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

As nouns, canine is a hyponym of tooth; that is, canine 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
canine: one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

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

tooth (noun)	canine (noun)
a means of enforcement	any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell	one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
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)	canine (adjective)
	of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae
	of or relating to a pointed conical tooth

Difference between tooth and canine

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