tooth vs premolar

premolar vs tooth

tooth and premolar both are nouns.

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

As nouns, premolar is a hyponym of tooth; that is, premolar 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
premolar: a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars

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, eyetooth, bicuspid, incisor, grinder, molar.

tooth (noun)	premolar (noun)
a means of enforcement	a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars
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 premolar

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