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Noun dogtooth has 3 senses
  1. dogtooth violet, dogtooth, dog's-tooth violet - perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated
    --1 is a kind of liliaceous plant
    --1 is a member of Erythronium, genus Erythronium
    --1 has particulars:
     white dogtooth violet, white dog's-tooth violet, blonde lilian, Erythronium albidum; yellow adder's tongue, trout lily, amberbell, Erythronium americanum; European dogtooth, Erythronium dens-canis; fawn lily, Erythronium californicum; glacier lily, snow lily, Erythronium grandiflorum
  2. canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid - one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
    --2 is a kind of tooth
    --2 has particulars: fang
  3. dogtooth - a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England
    --3 is a kind of     architectural ornament
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