tooth vs fang

tooth and fang both are nouns.

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

As nouns, fang is a hyponym of tooth; that is, fang 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
fang: hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison

Other hyponyms of tooth include 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, eyetooth, bicuspid, premolar, incisor, grinder, molar.

tooth (noun)	fang (noun)
a means of enforcement	hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell	canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey
something resembling the tooth of an animal	an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs
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 fang

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