tooth vs conodont

conodont vs tooth

tooth and conodont both are nouns.

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

As nouns, conodont is a hyponym of tooth; that is, conodont 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
conodont: the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta

Other hyponyms of tooth include fang, tusk, 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, canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth, bicuspid, premolar, incisor, grinder, molar.

tooth (noun)	conodont (noun)
a means of enforcement	small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell	the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta
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

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