tooth vs eyetooth

eyetooth vs tooth

tooth and eyetooth both are nouns.

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

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

tooth (noun)	eyetooth (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 eyetooth

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