tooth vs pearly

pearly vs tooth

tooth and pearly both are nouns.

tooth is not an adjective while pearly is an adjective.

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

As nouns, pearly is a hyponym of tooth; that is, pearly 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
pearly: informal terms for a human `tooth'

Other hyponyms of tooth include fang, tusk, conodont, chopper, 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)	pearly (noun)
a means of enforcement	informal terms for a human `tooth'
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

tooth (adjective)	pearly (adjective)
	of a white the color of pearls

Difference between tooth and pearly

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