tooth vs carnassial tooth

carnassial tooth vs tooth

tooth and carnassial tooth both are nouns.

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

As nouns, carnassial tooth is a hyponym of tooth; that is, carnassial 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
carnassial tooth: the last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of a carnivore; having sharp edges for cutting flesh

Other hyponyms of tooth include fang, tusk, conodont, chopper, pearly, anterior, 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)	carnassial tooth (noun)
a means of enforcement	the last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of a carnivore; having sharp edges for cutting flesh
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 carnassial tooth

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