tooth vs posterior

posterior vs tooth

tooth and posterior both are nouns.

tooth is not an adjective while posterior is an adjective.

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

As nouns, posterior is a hyponym of tooth; that is, posterior 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
posterior: a tooth situated at the back of the mouth

Other hyponyms of tooth include fang, tusk, conodont, chopper, pearly, carnassial tooth, anterior, front tooth, back tooth, 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)	posterior (noun)
a means of enforcement	the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell	a tooth situated at the back of the mouth
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)	posterior (adjective)
	located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure
	coming at a subsequent time or stage

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