toothed : Idioms & Phrases

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big-toothed aspen

  • noun aspen with a narrow crown; eastern North America
    large tooth aspen; bigtoothed aspen; bigtooth aspen; big-toothed aspen; Canadian aspen; Populus grandidentata.
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buck-toothed

  • adjective satellite having protruding upper front teeth
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false saber-toothed tiger

  • noun North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon
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fine-toothed

  • adjective satellite having fine teeth set close together
    fine-tooth.
    • a fine-toothed comb
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fine-toothed comb

  • noun a comb with teeth set close together
    fine-tooth comb.
  • noun a method of examining in minute detail
    fine-tooth comb.
    • he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes
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gag-toothed

Gag"-toothed" adjective
Definitions
  1. Having gagteeth. Obs.
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gap-toothed

  • adjective satellite having widely spaced teeth
    • his gap-toothed grin
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Gap"-toothed` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having interstices between the teeth. Dryden.
Webster 1913

gat-toothed

Gat"-toothed` adjective
Etymology
OE. gat goat + tooth. See Goat the animal.
Definitions
  1. Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. Obs.
Webster 1913

large-toothed aspen

  • noun aspen with a narrow crown; eastern North America
    large tooth aspen; bigtoothed aspen; bigtooth aspen; big-toothed aspen; Canadian aspen; Populus grandidentata.
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saber-toothed

  • adjective satellite having teeth that resemble sabers
    sabertoothed; saber-toothed.
    • a saber-toothed tiger
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saber-toothed tiger

  • noun any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene
    sabertooth.
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sabre-toothed

  • adjective satellite having teeth that resemble sabers
    sabertoothed; saber-toothed.
    • a saber-toothed tiger
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saw-toothed

  • adjective satellite notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
    toothed; serrated; notched; serrate.
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Saw"-toothed" adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
Webster 1913

sharp-toothed

  • adjective satellite having sharp teeth
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small-toothed

  • adjective satellite having small teeth
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toothed spurge

  • noun an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves
    Euphorbia dentata.
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toothed sword fern

  • noun tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil
    basket fern; Nephrolepis pectinata.
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Toothed whale

  • noun any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.
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  • (Zoöl.), any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete.
Webster 1913

Toothed wheel

  • noun a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations
    roulette.
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  • a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel.
Webster 1913