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Noun tooth has 5 senses
  1. tooth - hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
    --1 is a kind of     bone, os
    --1 is a member of dentition, teeth
    --1 has parts:
     dentine, dentin; pulp cavity; cusp; crown; root, tooth root; pulp; stump
     --1 has particulars:
     fang; tusk; conodont; chopper, pearly; carnassial tooth; front tooth, anterior; back tooth, posterior; malposed tooth; permanent tooth, adult tooth; primary tooth, deciduous tooth, baby tooth, milk tooth; canine, canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid; premolar, bicuspid; incisor; molar, grinder
  2. tooth - something resembling the tooth of an animal
    --2 is a kind of     projection
    --2 is a part of
     comb; comb; saw; power saw, saw, sawing machine
     --2 has particulars: cog, sprocket
  3. tooth - toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
    --3 is a kind of     structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
    --3 has particulars: denticle
  4. tooth - a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"
    --4 is a kind of     means, agency, way
  5. tooth - one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
    --5 is a kind of     projection
    --5 is a part of gear, gear wheel, cogwheel
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