noun
- One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars.
- synonyms: canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid
- Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles.
- synonyms: canid
adjective
- Of or relating to a pointed conical tooth.
- synonyms: laniary
- Of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae. .
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