tooth vs eye tooth

eye tooth vs tooth

tooth and eye tooth both are nouns.

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

As nouns, eye tooth is a hyponym of tooth; that is, eye 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
eye tooth: 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, canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eyetooth, bicuspid, premolar, incisor, grinder, molar.

tooth (noun)	eye tooth (noun)
a means of enforcement	one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
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 eye tooth

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